chef • ruby

Create new user in Chef cookbook

Overview

During working on creating new user in my Chef cookbook I encountered a problem with setting up proper password. I fixed this with unix_crypt gem and chef_gem resource.

chef_gem 'unix-crypt'

require 'unix_crypt'

username    = 'paweloczadly'
password    = 'top_secret'

user username do
    action       :create
    home         "/home/#{username}"
    shell        '/bin/bash'
    password     UnixCrypt::SHA256.build(password)
    manage_home  true
end