cfe-users-cookbook

Simplifies setting up of Linux users in Chromedia servers.

Supported Platforms

So far, it's just Ubuntu 14.04.

Attributes

Key	Type	Description	Default
['cfe-users']['group']	String	Name of group for server users.	'devs'
['cfe-users']['data_bag']	String	Name of data bag containg user items to be created/removed. The default value is the string "users_devs_" suffixed by the name of the current environment.	'users_devs_{node_env}'
['cfe-users']['admin_group']	String	Name of group for admin users.	'sysadmins'
['cfe-users']['admin_data_bag']	String	Name of data bag containing admin user items to be created/removed. The default value is the string "users_sysadmins_" suffixed by the name of the current environment.	'users_sysadmins_{node_env}'
['cfe-users']['post_run_reboot']	Boolean	This cookbook should normally request a reboot after the Chef client run. Set to 'false' to disable this behavior.	true

Usage

By default, dev users will be under a group called devs, and admins are are called sysadmins.

Simply create a data bag called users_devs_#{node.chef_environment} in your cookbook. Every item inside will correspond to a user under the devs group. Similarly, create a data bag called users_sysadmins_#{node.chef_environment}, containing items that correspond to admin users.

Each user data bag item must contain the following attributes (example for Ubuntu 14.04 user):

john.json
{
  "comment": "John Smith",
  "shell": "/bin/bash",
  "groups": [
    "john",
    "devs",
    "adm",
    "plugdev",
    "netdev"
  ],
  "ssh_keys": "ssh-rsa XXX... john",
  "id": "john"
}

The above json will create the user john. If an attribute "action": "remove" exists, then the user will be deleted, instead. Please see the example data bag in data_bags/users_example/example_user.json.

cfe-users::default

Include cfe-users in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cfe-users::default]"
  ]
}

License and Authors

Author:: Earth U. ()