readable.by not working on RHEL7

[warroyo]

I am attempting to use the readable.by and readable.by_user neither of which seems to be working. Here are the two problems I am seeing for each method.

readable.by: not sure if there is something else I need to set in order for this to work but mask is always nil

File /etc/at.allow should be executable by root
     Failure/Error: fail 'Invalid usergroup/owner provided' if mask.nil?

     RuntimeError:
       Invalid usergroup/owner provided

readable.by_user: This just hangs and does not return. I see the command running on the linux box but it is not returning.

[warroyo]

i needed to add the --sudo option

[chris-rock]

@warroyo Should we think about a better cli output that indicates a missing sudo option?

[warroyo]

Yes I think that would be great. The reason I did not find this sooner was due to mismatched documentation actually. The Chef Docs say there is a --disable_sudo option that is defaulted to false. and the documentation here says there is a --sudo option which is false. These two are conflicting so I thought I was using sudo the entire time because of the chef docs here. However like you said, some better output form the cli would definitely help.