no docs about users data bag, nor prototype user object

[metaxis]

This leaves one to discover the need and then examine templates and znc docs to fill in fields... Some proposed content for the requirements section of the readme:

Data Bag

This cookbook builds the irc users in the config from a users data bag, with users belonging to the znc group and with znc attributes like this:

data_bags/users/fred.json:

{
    "id": "fred",
    "groups": "znc",
    "znc":
        {
            "nick": "fredique",
            "pass": "see_below"
            "alt_nick": fredique-z",
            "real_name": "Steve Urbane",
            "ident": "Wanda",
            "server": "something-like-irc.freenode.net",
            "channels": ["#chef", "#chef-hacking"],
            // or
            "channels": {
              "#chef": { "Buffer": 500, "KeepBuffer": true },
              "#chef-hacking": {}
              },
            "modules": ["nickserv"]
        }
}

For the pass field you can use znc --makepass to generate the hash.

[agoddard]

+1, would be good to roll this in for new users