deprecations_supports_property.md

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The user resource previously allowed a cookbook author to set policy for the resource in two ways. The supports metaproperty, which is now deprecated, enabled the manage_home and non_unique properties to be set.

The supports metaproperty was deprecated in Chef Client 12.14 and will be removed in Chef Client 13.

Example

user "betty" do
  supports({
    manage_home: true,
    non_unique: true
  })
end

Remediation

Make the manage_home and non_unique settings properties rather than parts of the supports hash.

user "betty" do
  manage_home true
  non_unique true
end