How to recursively change the owner and group on a directory with Chef?

Question

the resource_directory has only 2 actions available: create and delete

I need to update the owner and group of a directory recursi

Answer 1

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28283020/11822923

Answer met my need but there is an issue with grep command, even if the user is apache2 or apach the grep exit code will be 0, but I needed the user to exactly be apache (Apache web server user on CentOS 7.7).

Here is my recipe:

node["apache"]["sites"].each do |sitename, data|
  document_root = "/content/sites/#{sitename}"

  directory document_root do
    action :create
    mode "0755"
    recursive true
    owner "apache"
    group "apache"
  end

  execute "chown_to_apache_user" do
    command "chown -R apache:apache /content"
    user "root"
    action :run
    not_if '[ $(stat -c %U /content/) = "apache" ]'
  end

  template "/etc/httpd/conf.d/#{sitename}.conf" do
    source "vhost.erb"
    mode "0644"
    variables(
      :document_root => document_root,
      :port => data["port"],
      :domain => data["domain"]
    )
    notifies :restart, "service[httpd]"
  end

end

For comparison:

P.S.: to check group as well:

node["apache"]["sites"].each do |sitename, data|
  document_root = "/content/sites/#{sitename}"

  directory document_root do
    action :create
    mode "0755"
    recursive true
    owner "apache"
    group "apache"
  end

  execute "chown_to_apache_user" do
    command "chown -R apache:apache /content"
    user "root"
    action :run
    not_if '[ $(stat -c %U /content/) = "apache" ] && [ $(stat -c %G /content/) = "apache" ]'
  end

  template "/etc/httpd/conf.d/#{sitename}.conf" do
    source "vhost.erb"
    mode "0644"
    variables(
      :document_root => document_root,
      :port => data["port"],
      :domain => data["domain"]
    )
    notifies :restart, "service[httpd]"
  end

end