Adding a user to a group?

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi! I have a user that gets created during the installation of a
vendor-supplied package . . . I need to add this user to a group . . .
anyone know ow to do that? If it makes a difference, this user has a
different UID on each machine it’s installed on :frowning:

Thanks!
Guy

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Yep, you can use the group resourcehttp://docs.opscode.com/resource_group.html to take care of this. You just have to make sure that the user is there ahead of this running in the run_list and it can use the members option to make sure it’s where it needs to be.

Best Regards,
JJ Asghar
e: jj.asghar@peopleadmin.com | c: 512.619.0722 | o: 512.977.5876

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Date: Monday, February 17, 2014 at 3:29 PM
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Subject: [chef] Adding a user to a group?

Hi! I have a user that gets created during the installation of a vendor-supplied package . . . I need to add this user to a group . . . anyone know ow to do that? If it makes a difference, this user has a different UID on each machine it’s installed on :frowning:

Thanks!
Guy