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[platform] make the set home directory step idempotent

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#9,707 opened on Aug 12, 2021

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Description

We have a step in ansible today that tries to make sure the home directory is owned by its owner. However, this step checks to see if the user exists first, and if the user exists, it'll skip this step.

We should change this to just checking if the home directory is owned by its owner, if not, go ahead and make it so.

This would reduce the number of errors or intermittent results that we are currently getting when nodes are reused.

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Research direction
Locate the Ansible task that sets home directory ownership and change the `when` condition from checking user existence to checking directory ownership.
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Domain
devops
Issue type
Refactor
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Under 1 hour
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Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
Ansible
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
80