ohai-plugin-passwd_extended

The passwd_extended Ohai plugin expands on the information retrieved by the passwd plugin distribute with Ohai.

Installation via Chef recipe

• Put the passwd_extended.rb file from lib/ into your cookbook's files tree.
• Put the following code in your recipe.

include_recipe "ohai::default"

cookbook_file "#{node['ohai']['plugin_path']}/passwd_extended.rb" do
  source "passwd_extended.rb"
  action :create
  notifies :reload, "ohai[reload_set_attributes]", :immediately
end

Usage

via ohai command

$ ohai -d /path/to/plugin_dir | jq .passwd_extended

{
  "root": {
    "lastlogin": "Wed Feb 4 14:35:19 -0500 2015",
    "pw_login": "Locked",
    "sshkey_login"=>false,
    "user_crontab"=>false
  }
}

via Ohai module in your scripts

require 'ohai'
Ohai::Config[:plugin_path] << '/path/to/plugin_dir'
oh = Ohai::System.new
oh.all_plugins
oh["etc"]["passwd_extended"]
oh["etc"]["passwd_extended"]["USERNAME"]["lastlogin"]  #= Never, or a date
oh["etc"]["passwd_extended"]["USERNAME"]["pw_login"]  #= Locked or Normal or No Password
oh["etc"]["passwd_extended"]["USERNAME"]["sshkey_login"]  #= true or false
oh["etc"]["passwd_extended"]["USERNAME"]["user_crontab"]  #= true or false

via Chef

# (client|solo).rb
Ohai::Config[:plugin_path] << '/path/to/plugins'

# in cookbook
node["etc"]["passwd-extended"]

Author

Neil Schelly nschelly@dyn.com

License

Copyright:: 2015, Dyn Inc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.