Users

Users

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The following tasks are available for user management in Chef server:

  • Creating users
  • Editing a user’s profile
  • Changing a password
  • Recovering a password
  • Regenerating a private key
  • Viewing a user’s profile

chef-server-ctl

The Chef server includes a command-line utility named chef-server-ctl. This command-line tool is used to start and stop individual services, reconfigure the Chef server, run chef-pedant, and then tail Chef server log files.

Use the user-create, user-delete, user-edit, user-list and user-show subcommands to manage users.

org-create

The org-create subcommand is used to create an organization. (The validation key for the organization is returned to STDOUT when creating an organization with this command.)

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl org-create ORG_NAME "ORG_FULL_NAME" (options)

where:

  • The name must begin with a lower-case letter or digit, may only contain lower-case letters, digits, hyphens, and underscores, and must be between 1 and 255 characters. For example: chef.
  • The full name must begin with a non-white space character and must be between 1 and 1023 characters. For example: "Chef Software, Inc.".

Options

This subcommand has the following options:

-a USER_NAME, --association_user USER_NAME
Associate a user with an organization and add them to the admins and billing_admins security groups.
-f FILE_NAME, --filename FILE_NAME
Write the ORGANIZATION-validator.pem to FILE_NAME instead of printing it to STDOUT.

org-delete

The org-delete subcommand is used to delete an organization.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl org-delete ORG_NAME

org-list

The org-list subcommand is used to list all of the organizations currently present on the Chef server.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl org-list (options)

Options

This subcommand has the following options:

-a, --all-orgs
Show all organizations.
-w, --with-uri
Show the corresponding URIs.

org-show

The org-show subcommand is used to show the details for an organization.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl org-show ORG_NAME

org-user-add

Warning

Early RC candidates for the Chef server 12 release named this command org-associate. This is the same command, with the exception of the --admin flag, which is added to the command (along with the rename) for the upcoming final release of Chef server 12.

The org-user-add subcommand is used to add a user to an organization.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl org-user-add ORG_NAME USER_NAME (options)

Options

This subcommand has the following options:

--admin
Add the user to the admins group.

org-user-remove

Warning

Early RC candidates for the Chef server 12 release named this command org-disociate. This is the same command, but renamed for the upcoming final release of Chef server 12.

The org-user-remove subcommand is used to remove a user from an organization.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl org-user-remove ORG_NAME USER_NAME (options)

user-create

The user-create subcommand is used to create a user. (The validation key for the organization may be returned to STDOUT when creating a user with this command.)

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl user-create USER_NAME FIRST_NAME [MIDDLE_NAME] LAST_NAME EMAIL 'PASSWORD' (options)

Options

This subcommand has the following options:

-f FILE_NAME, --filename FILE_NAME
Write the USER.pem to a file instead of STDOUT.

user-delete

The user-delete subcommand is used to delete a user.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl user-delete USER_NAME

user-edit

The user-edit subcommand is used to edit the details for a user. The data will be made available in the $EDITOR for editing.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl user-edit USER_NAME

user-list

The user-list subcommand is used to view a list of users.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl user-list (options)

Options

This subcommand has the following options:

-w, --with-uri
Show the corresponding URIs.

user-show

The user-show subcommand is used to show the details for a user.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

$ chef-server-ctl user-show USER_NAME (options)

Options

This subcommand has the following options:

-l, --with-orgs
Show all organizations.

Chef Manage

This section is an alphabetical list of the various user-specific tasks that can be performed when using Chef management console.

Change Password

To change a user’s password:

  1. Open the Chef management console.

  2. From the drop-down list next to your username, select My Profile.

  3. Under Users, click Change Password.

  4. In the Change Password, enter the old password and then the new password.

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_users_change_password.png
  5. When finished, click Change Password.

Invite a User

To invite a user to an organization:

  1. Open the Chef management console.

  2. Click Administration.

  3. Click Organizations.

  4. Click Invite User.

  5. In the Invite User dialog box, enter the Chef server user name for the user to be invited, and then click the Invite button:

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_organization_invite_user.png _images/step_manage_webui_admin_organization_invite_user_pending.png
  6. After the user accepts the invitation, they will be a member of this organization.

Cancel invite for User

Canceling a pending invite for a user can currently be completed using knife:

  1. As a user that is a member of the admins group, replace ORGNAME with your own ORGNAME and run:

    knife raw 'association_requests' -s https://api.opscode.com/organizations/ORGNAME

    You may see an empty list or you may see a populated list of invites. No invites looks like this

    [
    
    ]

    A single invite looks like this

    [
      {
        "id": "f6240e73d35b1e3ce3238ab8a5131ccb",
        "username": "testuser"
      }
    ]
  2. To cancel the above pending invite you would run

    knife raw -m DELETE 'association_requests/f6240e73d35b1e3ce3238ab8a5131ccb' -s https://api.opscode.com/organizations/ORGNAME

Leave Org

To leave an organization:

  1. Open the Chef management console.

  2. Click Administration.

  3. Click Organizations.

  4. Click Leave Organization.

  5. In the Leave Organization dialog box, confirm that you want to leave the organization, and then click the Leave Organization button:

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_organization_leave.png

Remove User from Org

To remove a user from an organization:

  1. Open the Chef management console.

  2. From the drop-down list next to your username, select My Profile.

  3. Under Users, click Leave Organization.

  4. In the Leave Organization dialog box, confirm that the key should be regenerated and click the Leave Organization button:

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_organization_leave.png

Remove Admin User from Org

Removing a member of the admins group from an organization requires the user to be removed from the admins group before they can be removed from the organization:

  1. Open the Chef management console.

  2. Click Administration.

  3. Click Groups.

  4. Select the Groups group.

  5. Select a user to be removed from the Groups group:

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_remove_admin_pre.png
  6. Click Remove.

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_remove_admin_post.png
  7. Click Users.

  8. Select a user.

  9. Click Remove from Organization.

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_remove_admin_success.png

Reset User Key

To reset a user’s validation key:

  1. Open the Chef management console.

  2. From the drop-down list next to your username, select My Profile.

  3. Under Users, click Reset Key.

  4. In the Reset Key dialog box, confirm that the key should be regenerated and click the Regenerate Key button:

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_organization_reset_key.png
  5. In the Reset Key dialog box, copy the key directly from the dialog box or click the Download button to download the key to your local machine:

    _images/step_manage_webui_admin_organization_reset_key_regenerated.png

View User Account Details

To view user account settings:

  1. Open the Chef management console.
  2. From the drop-down list next to your username, select My Profile.

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