Permit to recursively do salt.modules.file.chown, salt.modules.file.chgrp and salt.modules.file.set_mode

[baby-gnu]

Hello.

Description of Issue

I'm using salt-ssh to do parallel tasks and I would like to be able to pass recurse=True to some modules.

Setup

• You only need to have SSH access to several hosts (possibly a single one)

Steps to Reproduce Issue

• SSH access to several hosts
• copy some tree salt-ssh '*' file.copy /etc/skel/ /tmp/foo
• modify user group salt-ssh '*' file.chown /tmp/foo mail mail

We should be able to provide recurse=True to the last command.

Versions Report

Salt Version:
           Salt: 2019.2.2
 
Dependency Versions:
           cffi: Not Installed
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: 2.7.3
      docker-py: Not Installed
          gitdb: Not Installed
      gitpython: Not Installed
          ioflo: Not Installed
         Jinja2: 2.10
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
       M2Crypto: Not Installed
           Mako: Not Installed
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.5.6
   mysql-python: Not Installed
      pycparser: Not Installed
       pycrypto: Not Installed
   pycryptodome: Not Installed
         pygit2: Not Installed
         Python: 3.7.3 (default, Apr  3 2019, 05:39:12)
   python-gnupg: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.13
          PyZMQ: Not Installed
           RAET: Not Installed
          smmap: Not Installed
        timelib: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.5.3
            ZMQ: Not Installed
 
System Versions:
           dist: debian 10.1 
         locale: UTF-8
        machine: x86_64
        release: 4.19.0-5-amd64
         system: Linux
        version: debian 10.1 

[OrangeDog]

Why don't you use file.recurse to do it all in one step?
Recursively chowning/chmoding existing trees is usually a bad idea, commonly given as bad advice for e.g. "my website doesn't work".

[baby-gnu]

Hello @OrangeDog

My use case is not using states but modules by using salt-ssh as a replacement of pssh and there is no file.recurse in https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.file.html

For now, I'm doing salt-ssh '*' cmd.run 'chown -R mail:mail /tmp/foo.

Regards.

[frogunder]

@baby-gnu Thank you for this report.

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[baby-gnu]

Hello.

I'm still interested by this feature.

Regards.

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