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How to make newly created user as sudo user by using chef

I have created a user 'testuser' by using chef. How to make this user as sudo user?

Solution

  • There is a way to modify sudo group by using group resource:

    group "create testuser sudo" do
  group_name 'sudo'
  members 'testuser'
  action :modify
  append true
end

    Another way is to use sudo recipe https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/sudo .

    Recommended way to me is to go with the sudo recipe and offload system specific logic to recipe. There you get attributes resource configurations that makes you recipe code robust.