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Creates users from a databag search

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users Cookbook

Manages OS users from databags.

Scope

This cookbook is concerned with the management of OS users and groups from databags. It also manages the distribution of ssh keys to a user's home directory.

Requirements

A data bag populated with user objects must exist. The default data bag in this recipe is users. See USAGE.

Chef

Chef 12.1+

Platform Support

The following platforms have been tested with Test Kitchen:

Debian / Ubuntu and derivatives
RHEL and derivatives
Fedora
FreeBSD / OpenBSD
Mac OS X

Cookbook Dependencies

none

Usage

To use the resource users_manage, make sure to add the dependency on the users cookbook by the following line to your wrapper cookbook's metadata.rb:

depends 'users'

or to pin to a specific version of the users cookbook, in this case any version of 2.X:

depends 'users', '~> 2'

Then in a recipe:

users_manage 'GROUPNAME' do
  group_id GROUPID
  action [:create]
  data_bag 'DATABAG_NAME'
end

Example:

users_manage 'testgroup' do
  group_id 3000
  action [:create]
  data_bag 'test_home_dir'
end

Note: If you do not specify the data_bag, the default will be to look for a databag called users.

Databag Definition

A sample user object in a users databag would look like:

{
  "id": "test_user",
  "password": "$1$5cE1rI/9$4p0fomh9U4kAI23qUlZVv/",
  "ssh_keys": [
    "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAklOUpkDHrfHY17SbrmTIpNLTGK9Tjom/BWDSU\nGPl+nafzlHDTYW7hdI4yZ5ew18JH4JW9jbhUFrviQzM7xlELEVf4h9lFX5QVkbPppSwg0cda3\nPbv7kOdJ/MTyBlWXFCR+HAo3FXRitBqxiX1nKhXpHAZsMciLq8V6RjsNAQwdsdMFvSlVK/7XA\nt3FaoJoAsncM1Q9x5+3V0Ww68/eIFmb1zuUFljQJKprrX88XypNDvjYNby6vw/Pb0rwert/En\nmZ+AW4OZPnTPI89ZPmVMLuayrD2cE86Z/il8b+gw3r3+1nKatmIkjn2so1d01QraTlMqVSsbx\nNrRFi9wrf+M7Q== chefuser@mylaptop.local",
    "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAklOUpkDHrfHY17SbrmTIpNLTGK9Tjom/BWDSU\nGPl+nafzlHDTYW7hdI4yZ5ew18JH4JW9jbhUFrviQzM7xlELEVf4h9lFX5QVkbPppSwg0cda3\nPbv7kOdJ/MTyBlWXFCR+HAo3FXRitBqxiX1nKhXpHAZsMciLq8V6RjsNAQwdsdMFvSlVK/7XA\nt3FaoJoAsncM1Q9x5+3V0Ww68/eIFmb1zuUFljQJKprrX88XypNDvjYNby6vw/Pb0rwert/En\nmZ+AW4OZPnTPI89ZPmVMLuayrD2cE86Z/il8b+gw3r3+1nKatmIkjn2so1d01QraTlMqVSsbx\nNQCPO0ZZEa1== chefuser@mylaptop.local"
  ],
  "groups": [ "testgroup", "nfsgroup" ],
  "uid": 9001,
  "shell": "\/bin\/bash",
  "comment": "Test User"
}

Databag Key Definitions

id: String specifies the username, as well as the data bag object id.
password: String specifies the user's password.
ssh_keys: Array an array of authorized keys that will be managed by Chef to the user's home directory in .ssh/authorized_keys
groups: Array an array of groups that the user will be added to
uid: Integer a unique identifier for the user
shell: String the user's shell
comment:String the GECOS field, generally the User's full name.

Other potential fields:

home: String User's home directory. If not assigned, will be set based on platform and username.
action: String Supported actions are one's supported by the user resource. If not specified, the default action is create.
ssh_private_key: String manages user's private key generally ~/.ssh/id_*
ssh_public_key: String manages user's public key generally ~/.ssh/id_*.pub

Resources Overview

users_manage

The users_manage resource manages users and groups based off of a data bag search and specified action.

Examples

Creates the sysadmin group and users defined in the users databag.

users_manage 'sysadmin' do
  group_id 2300
  action [:create]
end

Creates the testgroup group, and users defined in the test_home_dir databag.

users_manage 'testgroup' do
  group_id 3000
  action [:create]
  data_bag 'test_home_dir'
end

Creates the nfsgroup group, and users defined in the test_home_dir databag and does not manage nfs home directories.

users_manage 'nfsgroup' do
  group_id 4000
  action [:create]
  data_bag 'test_home_dir'
  manage_nfs_home_dirs false
end

Parameters

data_bag String is the data bag to search
search_group String groups name to search for, defaults to resource name
group_name String name of the group to create, defaults to resource name
group_id Integer numeric id of the group to create, default is to allow the OS to pick next
cookbook String name of the cookbook that the authorized_keys template should be found in
manage_nfs_home_dirs Boolean whether to manage nfs home directories.

Otherwise, this cookbook is specific for setting up sysadmin group and users with the sysadmins recipe for now.

Recipe Overview

sysadmins.rb: recipe that manages the group sysadmins with group id 2300, and adds users to this group.

To use:

include_recipe "users::sysadmins"

The recipe is defined as follows:

users_manage "sysadmin" do
  group_id 2300
  action [ :create ]
end

This users_manage resource searches the users data bag for the sysadmin group attribute, and adds those users to a Unix security group sysadmin. The only required attribute is group_id, which represents the numeric Unix gid and must be unique. The default action for the resource is :create.

The recipe, by default, will also create the sysadmin group. The sysadmin group will be created with GID 2300. This may become an attribute at a later date.

Data bag Overview

Reminder Data bags generally should not be stored in cookbooks, but in a policy repo within your organization. Data bags are useful across cookbooks, not just for a single cookbook.

Use knife to create a data bag for users.

$ knife data bag create users

Create a user in the data_bag/users/ directory.

An optional password hash can be specified that will be used as the user's password.

The hash can be generated with the following command.

$ openssl passwd -1 "plaintextpassword"

Note: The ssh_keys attribute below can be either a String or an Array. However, we are recommending the use of an Array.

{
  "id": "bofh",
  "ssh_keys": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz...yhCw== bofh"
}

{
  "id": "bofh",
  "password": "$1$d...HgH0",
  "ssh_keys": [
    "ssh-rsa AAA123...xyz== foo",
    "ssh-rsa AAA456...uvw== bar"
  ],
  "groups": [ "sysadmin", "dba", "devops" ],
  "uid": 2001,
  "shell": "\/bin\/bash",
  "comment": "BOFH"
}

You can pass any action listed in the user resource for Chef via the "action" option. For Example:

Lock a user, johndoe1.

$ knife data bag edit users johndoe1

And then change the action to "lock":

{
  "id": "johndoe1",
  "groups": ["sysadmin", "dba", "devops"],
  "uid": 2002,
  "action": "lock", // <--
  "comment": "User violated access policy"
}

Remove a user, johndoe1.

$ knife data bag edit users johndoe1

And then change the action to "remove":

{
  "id": "johndoe1",
  "groups": [ "sysadmin", "dba", "devops" ],
  "uid": 2002,
  "action": "remove", // <--
  "comment": "User quit, retired, or fired."
}

Note only user bags with the "action : remove" and a search-able "group" attribute will be purged by the :remove action.
As of v2.0.3 you can use the force parameter within the user data bag object for users with action remove. As per user docs this may leave the system in an inconsistent state. For example, a user account will be removed even if the user is logged in. A user’s home directory will be removed, even if that directory is shared by multiple users.

If you have different requirements, for example:
- You want to search a different data bag specific to a role such as
- mail. You may change the data_bag searched.
- data_bag mail

You want to search for a different group attribute named
postmaster. You may change the search_group attribute. This
attribute defaults to the LWRP resource name.
- search_group postmaster
You want to add the users to a security group other than the
lightweight resource name. You may change the group_name attribute.
This attribute also defaults to the LWRP resource name.
- group_name wheel

Putting these requirements together our recipe might look like this:

users_manage "postmaster" do
  data_bag "mail"
  group_name "wheel"
  group_id 10
end

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.

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

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

Copyright: 2009-2016, Chef Software, 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.

Dependent cookbooks

This cookbook has no specified dependencies.

Contingent cookbooks

users Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the users cookbook.

4.0.0 (2016-09-15)

Add chef_version to the metadata
Require Chef 12.1+
Testing updates
Fixed compatibility with Chef 12.14
Properly define the Chefspec matcher
Add a warning if someone includes users::default since that does nothing

v3.0.0

@onlyhavecans - Fix FreeBSD support
@stem - Fix user creation on Mac OS X on 10.7 and 10.8
Remove old style chef solo code to clean up rubocop issues, move to using cookstyle
Adding zlinux support

v2.0.3

@nkadel-skyhook - create .ssh directory only if keys are configured.
@signe - allow force parameter to be specified for users configured to be removed.
@FlorentFlament - adding the ability to manage groups for existing users.

v2.0.2 (2016-1-25)

@375gnu- validate uid/gid for strings versus numeric
fix rubocop errors based on https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/issues/2608
fix kitchen configurations for testing

v2.0.1 (2016-1-8)

Fixed provider to work on Mac OS X
funzoneq - add correct default shell for FreeBSD if not provided
Added kitchen.dokken to speed up platform testing

v2.0.0 (2015-12-11)

Removed Chef 10 compatibility code
Removed the nodes fqdn from the authorized_keys file
Removed a trailing comma in a readme example
Added chef standard .gitignore and chefignore files
Added chef standard .rubocop.yml file and resolved warnings
Resolved foodcritic warnings

v1.8.2 (2015-03-18)

No changes, just republishing 1.8.1

v1.8.1 (2015-03-12)

Add source_url and issues_url to the metadata.rb so Supermarket can display appropriate links

v1.8.0 (2015-03-09)

Expose LWRP state attributes
[COOK-4401] - Add unit tests with ChefSpec
[COOK-4404] - Determine file system and add manage_nfs_home_dirs attribute to disable managing NFS mounted home directories
Remove converge_by when creating home directory, the directory resource already handles this
Do not manage home directory if the path does not exist
Add integration with TravisCI
"Opscode" to "Chef" replacements
Retire unsupported Ruby 1.9.3 and add Ruby 2.2 to the Travis integration tests
Updates for RSpec 3

v1.7.0 (2014-02-14)

[COOK-4139] - users_manage resource always notifies
[COOK-4078] - users cookbook fails in why-run mode for .ssh directory
[COOK-3959] - Add support for Mac OS X to users cookbook

v1.6.0

Bug

COOK-3744 - Allow passing an action option via the data_bag to the user resource

v1.5.2

Bug

COOK-3215 - Make group_id optional

v1.5.0

[COOK-2427] - Mistakenly released instead of sudo :-).

v1.4.0

[COOK-2479] - Permit users cookbook to work with chef-solo if edelight/chef-solo-search is installed
[COOK-2486] - specify precedence when setting node attribute

v1.3.0

[COOK-1842] - allow specifying private SSH keys
[COOK-2021] - Empty default recipe for including users LWRPs

v1.2.0

[COOK-1398] - Provider manage.rb ignores username attribute
[COOK-1582] - ssh_keys should take an array in addition to a string separated by new lines

v1.1.4

[COOK-1396] - removed users get recreated
[COOK-1433] - resolve foodcritic warnings
[COOK-1583] - set passwords for users

v1.1.2

[COOK-1076] - authorized_keys template not found in another cookbook

v1.1.0

[COOK-623] - LWRP conversion

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FC003: Check whether you are running with chef server before using server-specific features: /tmp/3aadb07db0d00d0b25966514/users/providers/manage.rb:28
FC003: Check whether you are running with chef server before using server-specific features: /tmp/3aadb07db0d00d0b25966514/users/providers/manage.rb:40

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