[chef] Re: Creating local users

[Yoshi Spendiff < >]

I have a base cookbook with a users recipe that I apply to all nodes.

It looks something like this:

node['base-cookbook']['users'].each do |username, enabled|

  user username do

    action enabled ? :create : :remove

    <other user options>

  end

end

Then in your roles or role cookbook you can just use that attribute.

default['base-cookbook']['users']['user_1'] = true
default['base-cookbook']['users']['user_2'] = true
default['base-cookbook']['users']['user_3'] = false

I use a hash instead of an array so you can delete a user and so you don't come across any situations where you were expecting to overwrite an array and instead it was merged.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Mohammad Fattahian < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi folks,

 

What’s the best way to create local users based on the role of the nodes?

 

Let say I need different users created on nodes based on their roles (WEB Server, DB Server, etc.)

 

I’m using ‘users Cookbook’ to create users from a database.

 

 

Mohammad

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