Resetting a user’s password in Chef
Resetting a user’s password in Chef
This morning in someone had locked themselves out of their WebUI admin account, and wanted to know how to reset the password.
So long you have knife set up with an admin account locally, this should do the trick:
#!/usr/bin/ruby unless ARGV[0] && ARGV[1] puts "Usage: set_password.rb username password" exit 1 end require 'rubygems' require 'chef' require 'chef/config' require 'chef/webui_user' Chef::Config.from_file(File.expand_path("knife.rb")) user = Chef::WebUIUser.load(ARGV[0]) if user user.set_password(ARGV[1]) user.save else puts "Could not find user #{ARGV[0]}." exit 2 end |
Put it in a file, and then run ruby set_password.rb admin newpassword. If it doesn’t say anything, it worked.
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