Re: how do I create home subdirs with correct owner?

[Frank Ranner]

Tom Schutter wrote:

> I am running cfengine as root, and trying to create a special directory 
> in everyone's home directory.  But what I cannot figure out is how to 
> get the ownership correct.  Here is my config:
>
> control:
>   mountpattern = ( / )
>   HomePattern = ( home )
>   actionsequence = ( directories )
>
> directories:
>   home/.baz
>     mode=700
>
> So if my directory tree looks like this:
> /home
> /home/foo (owned by foo)
> /home/bar (owned by bar)
>
> I get:
> /home
> /home/foo (owned by foo)
> /home/foo/.baz (owned by root)
> /home/bar (owned by bar)
> /home/bar/.baz (owned by root)
>
> What I want is /home/foo/.razor to be owned by foo, not root.
>
> Thanks,

I don't think you can. I wanted to do something similar but couldn't do 
it using homes. I ended up putting some commands in the master profile, 
so the users (unwittingly) performed the operation on login.

The way to do it would be to have a cfengine variable that contains the 
owner of the directories being iterated over. Then you could do

directories:
   home/.baz
     mode=700 owner=$(homes_current)

A more general solution would be a variable containing the owner of the 
immediate parent.

copy:
$(master)/src/proj.c
   dest=/export/home/fred/proj.c
   owner=$(o_inherit)
   group=$(g_inherit)

The problem is, variables are evaluated at parse time, not at the time 
the action fires.

Still, it might be worth looking at.

Regards,
Frank Ranner