Chef, git and user home directories

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I’m wanting to implement a way for our Chef to create the home directories
of our users.

I’m thinking of having user home directories stored in a git repo. Users
may update their own directories any time to git…adding .bashrc,
authorized_keys, or any scripts they like to have.

I was then planning on having Chef pull from git these home directories on
to all hosts during its regularly scheduled runs.

Is anyone else doing this?

Any gotchas I should look out for? Any specific cookbook you may be using?

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I'm thinking of having user home directories stored in a git repo. Users
may update their own directories any time to git...adding .bashrc,
authorized_keys, or any scripts they like to have.
I think you can use this cookbook[1] as base. Its not mine, but it appears to do what you want.

[1] GitHub - axsuul/cookbook-dotfiles: Provides Chef recipes for installing my dotfiles

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On 28 December 2012 13:56, Alfredo Palhares masterkorp@masterkorp.netwrote:

I think you can use this cookbook[1] as base. Its not mine, but it appears
to do what you want.

[1] GitHub - axsuul/cookbook-dotfiles: Provides Chef recipes for installing my dotfiles

And here is a decent set of dot files:

Ringo