[chef] Re: Re: RE: Re: Creating local users

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

https://github.com/poise/poise-service#poise_service_user is an easy way to ;
handle this.

--Noah

On Jul 30, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Fabien Delpierre 
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 wrote:

> You could put your users in different groups, and then use the users 
> cookbook's users_manage resource to look for users in a given group and 
> only create those users on a given node.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Mohammad Fattahian 
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>  wrote:
> Thanks for your help, but as I said I’m using ‘users cookbook’ 
> (https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/users)
> 
>  
> I’ve created a databag with all users we need on the nodes, but some nodes 
> does not require all the users created. I’m looking for a way to create 
> users based nodes.
> 
>  
> Mohammad
> 
>  
>  
>  
> From: Yoshi Spendiff 
> [mailto:
 
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> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:16 AM
> To: chef
> Subject: [chef] Re: Creating local users
> 
>  
> 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 
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>  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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> 
> --
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> Yoshi Spendiff
> 
> Ops Engineer
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> Indochino
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