darienicolae / users

A Chef cookbook for users

Description

Creates users from a databag search.

Requirements

Platform

• Debian, Ubuntu
• CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora
• FreeBSD

Data bag named "users" must exist. See USAGE.

Usage

This cookbook is specific for setting up sysadmin group and users for now.

include_recipe "users::sysadmins"

Use knife to create a data bag for users.

knife data bag create users

Create a user.

knife data bag users bofh
{
  "id": "bofh",
  "ssh_keys": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz...yhCw== bofh",
  "groups": "sysadmin",
  "uid": 2001,
  "shell": "\/bin\/bash",
  "comment": "BOFH",
  "nagios": {
    "pager": "[email protected]",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "openid": "bofh.myopenid.com"
}

The latest version of knife supports reading data bags from a file and automatically looks in a directory called +data_bags+ in the current directory. The "bag" should be a directory with JSON files of each item. For the above:

mkdir data_bags/users
$EDITOR data_bags/users/bofh.json

Paste the user's public SSH key into the ssh_keys value. Also make sure the uid is unique, and if you're not using bash, that the shell is installed. Group must be sysadmin.

The recipe will also create the sysadmin group. If you're using the opscode sudo cookbook, they'll have sudo access in the default site-cookbooks template. They won't have passwords though, so the sudo cookbook's template needs to be adjusted so the sysadmin group has NOPASSWD.

The sysadmin group will be created with GID 2300. This may become an attribute at a later date.

The Apache cookbook can set up authentication using OpenIDs, which is set up using the openid key here. See the Opscode 'apache2' cookbook for more information about this.

License and Author

Author:: Joshua Timberman ([email protected]) Author:: Seth Chisamore ([email protected])

Copyright:: 2009-2011, Opscode, Inc

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.