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user (17) Versions 0.4.2

A convenient Chef LWRP to manage user accounts and SSH keys (this is not the opscode users cookbook)

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cookbook 'user', '= 0.4.2', :supermarket
cookbook 'user', '= 0.4.2'
knife supermarket install user
knife supermarket download user
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<a name="title"></a> User Chef Cookbook

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<a name="description"></a> Description

A convenient Chef LWRP to manage user accounts and SSH keys. This is not
the Opscode users cookbook.

<a name="usage"></a> Usage

Simply include this cookbook as a dependency in metadata.rb and the user_account
resource will be available. Example:

# In your_cookbook/metadata.rb
depends 'user'

# In your_cookbook/recipes/default.rb
user_account 'hsolo' do
    ssh_keygen true
end

To use recipe[user::data_bag], include it in your run_list and have a
data bag called "users" with an item like the following:

{
  "id"        : "hsolo",
  "comment"   : "Han Solo",
  "home"      : "/opt/hoth/hsolo",
  "groups"    : ["admin", "www-data"],
  "ssh_keys"  : ["123...", "456..."]
}

or a user to be removed:

{
  "id"      : "lando",
  "action"  : "remove"
}

If you have a username containing a period, use a dash in the data bag item
and set a username attribute:

{
  "id"        : "luke-skywalker",
  "username"  : "luke.skywalker",
  "action"    : ["create", "lock"]
}

The data bag recipe will iterate through a list of usernames defined in
node['users'] (by default) and attempt to pull in the user's information
from the data bag item. In other words, having:

node['users'] = ['hsolo', 'lando', 'luke.skywalker']

will set up the hsolo user information and not use the lando user
information.

<a name="requirements"></a> Requirements

<a name="requirements-chef"></a> Chef

Tested on 0.10.8 but newer and older version should work just fine. File an
issue if this isn't the case.

<a name="requirements-platform"></a> Platform

The following platforms have been tested with this cookbook, meaning that the
recipes run on these platforms without error:

  • ubuntu
  • debian
  • mac_os_x

<a name="requirements-cookbooks"></a> Cookbooks

There are no external cookbook dependencies.

<a name="installation"></a> Installation

Depending on the situation and use case there are several ways to install
this cookbook. All the methods listed below assume a tagged version release
is the target, but omit the tags to get the head of development. A valid
Chef repository structure like the Opscode repo is also assumed.

<a name="installation-platform"></a> From the Community Site

To install this cookbook from the Community Site, use the knife command:

knife cookbook site install user

<a name="installation-berkshelf"></a> Using Berkshelf

Berkshelf is a cookbook dependency manager and development
workflow assistant. To install Berkshelf:

cd chef-repo
gem install berkshelf
berks init

To use the Community Site version:

echo "cookbook 'user'" >> Berksfile
berks install

Or to reference the Git version:

repo="fnichol/chef-user"
latest_release=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/git/refs/tags \
| ruby -rjson -e '
  j = JSON.parse(STDIN.read);
  puts j.map { |t| t["ref"].split("/").last }.sort.last
')
cat >> Berksfile < 'git://github.com/$repo.git', :branch => '$latest_release'
END_OF_BERKSFILE
berks install

<a name="installation-librarian"></a> Using Librarian-Chef

Librarian-Chef is a bundler for your Chef cookbooks.
To install Librarian-Chef:

cd chef-repo
gem install librarian
librarian-chef init

To use the Opscode platform version:

echo "cookbook 'user'" >> Cheffile
librarian-chef install

Or to reference the Git version:

repo="fnichol/chef-user"
latest_release=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/git/refs/tags \
| ruby -rjson -e '
  j = JSON.parse(STDIN.read);
  puts j.map { |t| t["ref"].split("/").last }.sort.last
')
cat >> Cheffile < 'git://github.com/$repo.git', :ref => '$latest_release'
END_OF_CHEFFILE
librarian-chef install

<a name="recipes"></a> Recipes

<a name="recipes-default"></a> default

This recipe is a no-op and does nothing.

<a name="recipes-data-bag"></a> data_bag

Processes a list of users with data drawn from a data bag. The default data bag
is users and the list of user accounts to create on this node is set on
node['users'].

<a name="attributes"></a> Attributes

<a name="attributes-home-root"></a> home_root

The default parent path of a user's home directory. Each resource can override
this value which varies by platform. Generally speaking, the default value is
"/home".

<a name="attributes-default-shell"></a> default_shell

The default user shell given to a user. Each resource can override this value
which varies by platform. Generally speaking, the default value is
"/bin/bash".

<a name="attributes-home-dir-mode"></a> home_dir_mode

The default Unix permissions applied to a user's home directory.

The default is "2755".

<a name="attributes-manage-home"></a> manage_home

Whether of not to manage the home directory of a user by default. Each resource
can override this value. The are 2 valid states:

  • "true", true, or "yes": will manage the user's home directory.
  • "false", false, or "no": will not manage the user's home directory.

The default is true.

<a name="attributes-non-unique"></a> non_unique

Whether of not to allow the creation of a user account with a duplicate UID.
Each resource can override this value. The are 2 valid states:

  • "true", true, or "yes": will allow duplicate UIDs.
  • "false", false, or "no": will not allow duplicate UIDs.

The default is false.

<a name="attributes-create-user-group"></a> create_group

Whether or not to to create a group with the same name as the user by default.
Each resource can override this value. The are 2 valid states:

  • "true", true, or "yes": will create a group for the user by default.
  • "false", false, or "no": will not create a group for the user by default.

The default is true.

<a name="attributes-ssh-keygen"></a> ssh_keygen

Whether or not to generate an SSH keypair for the user by default. Each
resource can override this value. There are 2 valid states:

  • "true", true, or "yes": will generate an SSH keypair when the account is created.
  • "false", false, or "no": will not generate an SSH keypair when the account is created.

The default is true.

<a name="attributes-data-bag-name"></a> data_bag_name

The data bag name containing a group of user account information. This is used
by the data_bag recipe to use as a database of user accounts.

The default is "users".

<a name="attributes-user-array-node-attr"></a> user_array_node_attr

The node attributes containing an array of users to be managed. If a nested
hash in the node's attributes is required, then use a / between subhashes.
For example, if the users' array is stored in node['system']['accounts']),
then set node['user']['user_array_node_attr'] to "system/accounts".

The default is "users".

<a name="lwrps"></a> Resources and Providers

<a name="lwrps-ua"></a> user_account

Note: in order to use the password attribute, you must have the
ruby-shadow gem installed. On Debian/Ubuntu you can get
this by installing the "libshadow-ruby1.8" package.

<a name="lwrps-ua-actions"></a> Actions

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Action</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>create</td>
<td>
Create the user, its home directory, <code>.ssh/authorized_keys</code>,
and <code>.ssh/{id_rsa,id_rsa.pub}</code>.
</td>
<td>Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>remove</td>
<td>Remove the user account.</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>modify</td>
<td>Modify the user account.</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>manage</td>
<td>Manage the user account.</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>lock</td>
<td>Lock the user's password.</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>unlock</td>
<td>Unlock the user's password.</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<a name="lwrps-ua-attributes"></a> Attributes

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Attribute</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default Value</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>username</td>
<td><b>Name attribute:</b> The name of the user.</td>
<td><code>nil</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>comment</td>
<td>Gecos/Comment field.</td>
<td><code>nil</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>uid</td>
<td>The numeric user id.</td>
<td><code>nil</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>gid</td>
<td>The primary group id.</td>
<td><code>nil</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>groups</td>
<td>Array of other groups this user should be a member of.</td>
<td><code>nil</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>home</td>
<td>Home directory location.</td>
<td><code>"#{node['user']['home_root']}/#{username}</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>shell</td>
<td>The login shell.</td>
<td><code>node['user']['default_shell']</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>password</td>
<td>Shadow hash of password.</td>
<td><code>nil</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>system_user</td>
<td>Whether or not to create a system user.</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>manage_home</td>
<td>Whether or not to manage the home directory.</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>non_unique</td>
<td>Whether or not to allow the creation of a user account with a duplicate UID.</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>create_group</td>
<td>
Whether or not to to create a group with the same name as the user.
</td>
<td><code>node['user']['create_group']</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ssh_keys</td>
<td>
A <b>String</b> or <b>Array</b> of SSH public keys to populate the
user's <code>.ssh/authorized_keys</code> file.
</td>
<td><code>[]</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ssh_keygen</td>
<td>Whether or not to generate an SSH keypair for the user.</td>
<td><code>node['user']['ssh_keygen']</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>groups</td>
<td>An Array of groups to which to add the user.</td>
<td><code>[]</code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<a name="lwrps-ua-examples"></a> Examples

Creating a User Account
user_account 'hsolo' do
  comment   'Han Solo'
  ssh_keys  ['3dc348d9af8027df7b9c...', '2154d3734d609eb5c452...']
  home      '/opt/hoth/hsolo'
end
Creating and Locking a User Account
user_account 'lando' do
  action  [:create, :lock]
end
Removing a User account
user_account 'obiwan' do
  action  :remove
end

<a name="development"></a> Development

Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested.
Ideally create a topic branch for every separate change you make.

<a name="license"></a> License and Author

Author:: [Fletcher Nichol][fnichol] (fnichol@nichol.ca) endorse

Copyright 2011, Fletcher Nichol

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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0.3.0 / 2012-07-24

Improvements

  • Rename data_bag attribute to data_bag_name which works with bag_config cookbook. (@fnichol)

0.2.15 / 2012-07-24

Improvements

  • Add :user_array_node_attr attribute which can override the location of the users' array in your node's attribute hash. (@fnichol)

0.2.14 / 2012-07-24

Improvements

  • Pull request #11, Issue #10: Groups management (not only gid). (@smaftoul)

0.2.12 / 2012-05-01

Bug fixes

  • user_account LWRP now notifies when updated (FC017). (@fnichol)
  • Add plaform equivalents in default attrs (FC024). (@fnichol)

Improvements

  • Add unit testing for user_account resource. (@fnichol)
  • Add unit testing for attributes. (@fnichol)
  • Add TravisCI to run test suite and Foodcritic linter. (@fnichol)
  • Reorganize README with section links. (@fnichol)
  • Pull request #7: Fix semantic issues in README. (@nathenharvey)

0.2.10 / 2012-01-20

Bug fixes

  • Pull request #6: Fix ordering of user deletion in :remove action. (@nessche)

Improvements

  • Issue #4: Support Ruby 1.8.6 (no #end_with?). (@fnichol)
  • Issue #3: Mention dependency on ruby-shadow if managing password. (@fnichol)
  • Issue #5: Clarify iteration through node['users'] in recipe[user::data_bag]. (@fnichol)

0.2.8 / 2012-01-20

Improvements

  • Handle user names with periods in them. (@fnichol)

0.2.6 / 2011-10-18

Improvements

  • Data bag item attribute username can override id for users with illegal data bag characters. (@fnichol)

0.2.4 / 2011-09-19

Bug fixes

  • Fix data bag missing error message. (@fnichol)

0.2.2 / 2011-09-14

Bug fixes

  • Issue #2: user_account resource should accept String or Integer for uid attribute. (@fnichol)
  • Add home and shell defaults for SuSE. (@fnichol)

Improvements

  • Add installation instructions to README. (@fnichol)
  • Add fallback default home_root attribute value of "/home". (@fnichol)

0.2.0 / 2011-08-12

The initial release.

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