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

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

Welcome to Stackoverflow. What code have you tried so far? – StephenKing Feb 07 '17 at 15:47 — StephenKing, Feb 07 '17 at 15:47
Try searching sudo in http://supermarket.chef.io ? – Tensibai Feb 07 '17 at 16:35 — Tensibai, Feb 07 '17 at 16:35

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '17 at 03:15

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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.

answered Feb 16 '17 at 03:15

gsone

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Thanks for your Ans. I have tested this and it worked for me:-) – Sampath Mar 08 '17 at 07:59

Mark Unsworth · Answer 2 · 2017-02-10T16:53:02.693

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There's an existing sudo cookbook for managing this.

There's a sudo LWRP that will then allow you to add a user (it will add file to the /etc/sudoers.d directory)

sudo 'tomcat' do
  user      "%tomcat"    # or a username
  runas     'app_user'   # or 'app_user:tomcat'
  commands  ['/etc/init.d/tomcat restart']
end

edited Feb 10 '17 at 16:53

answered Feb 10 '17 at 16:47

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 07 '17 at 20:05

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You do it the same way as always, by adding the user to your /etc/sudoers config. You could manage that file using a template resource, for example.

answered Feb 07 '17 at 20:05

coderanger

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 07 '18 at 15:52

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Since Chef 14, 'sudo' is a resource

answered Nov 07 '18 at 15:52

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

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