Elasticsearch user homedir deleted

[jro]

Why is the elasticsearch user's homedir being deleted? It caused me some confusion and seems a bit counterintuitive.

https://github.com/elastic/cookbook-elasticsearch/blob/master/libraries/provider_user.rb#L28-L33

[martinb3]

Hi @jro -- it's because the user provider automatically creates a user home dir whether you want one or not. We should probably use a different resource and provider, or figure out a better workaround.

[jro]

For me I tried setting $HOME to be the parent directory /somedir/elasticsearch which contained the installed version and all the /etc /data /logs dirs as well. Then on each chef run it would dutifully delete that homedir and recreate all that.

[martinb3]

Howdy -- I'm removing the delete feature to solve this issue @jro. We can re-explore it later, but I don't want you to be too long without a released version that works. Thanks for the bug report! We'll be releasing a new version in the next day or so.