"directory" resource does not set "owner" that is not in /etc/passwd

[gkugel]

When attempting to create a directory with an LDAP user as the owner, the ownership stays as "root"
During my tests I could only set ownership if the username is in /etc/passwd file:

directory '/home/user1' do
owner 'user1'
group 'ldap-users'
mode '0755'
action :create
end

If I run "sudo chown user1 /home/user1" after chef-client, the ownership is changed without any issues.

Version: Chef: 11.12.0.rc.1

Environment: Ubuntu 12.04

[stevendanna]

@gkugel Is the chef-client run where this is failing also the first time ldap is being configured? If so, you might be hitting a problem with the fact that deep down in the stack (glibc), there is caching that occurs at the per-process level which means that configuration changes around nss aren't picked up by that process.

[lamont-granquist]

Yeah that most likely will not be solvable short of patching ruby itself and/or running nscd with user and group caching turned on. I doubt there's a fixable chef-client bug here.

[gkugel]

Yep, looks like caching issue. Restarting nscd seems to have helped. Thank you!