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Automating User Management with Chef

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Christopher Adamson
Nov 10, 2025
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Managing user accounts across multiple servers is a common but tedious administrative task. Chef can simplify this by automating the creation, modification, and deletion of user accounts, ensuring consistency and saving time. In this part, you’ll learn how to use Chef to automate user account management, including creating a user, setting up their home directory, and configuring SSH access.

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