Server Users

The following tasks are available for user management in Chef Infra 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 Infra 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 Infra Server, run chef-pedant, and then tail Chef Infra 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 Infra 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

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

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.