Please add an option to specify the desired shell to pass to the su command

[julian-hg]

Please add an option to specify the desired shell to pass to the su command.

The specific user account I use for monitoring purposes have a default shell of /sbin/nologin, so under RHEL6 the su command exits with an error of 'This account is currently not available'

[martinb3]

Hello! Are you referring to the init script's usage of su? We've re-written the cookbook using libraries that expose resources and providers. We've separated out the service functionality into an elasticsearch_service resource, which you might choose to skip in favor of your own, which you could completely customize. We currently run as a specific elasticsearch user, so I'm not sure it makes sense to add this functionality for the general case. We'll likely eventually be moving to the packaged, elasticsearch.org-sourced init scripts, too (in #321).

[martinb3]

Hi folks -- could you try the 2.0.0_wip branch of this cookbook, and report back any issues in #321? It has the same init scripts now as the packaged version of ES; it's our goal to release a 2.0.0 version that works with ES 2.0.0. It does have some changes from the current version, but depending on how complex your resource usage is, you may or may not be affected. Thanks!