user resource does not create a home directory if a user exists and manage_home is added to the resource in a later run

If a recipe has a user resource like this:

user "test" do
  home "/home/test"
end

Chef will create the user just fine. However, we might have wanted to manage the home directory, and change the resource:

user "test" do
  supports :manage_home => true
  home "/home/test"
end

The user will already exist, even though the home directory doesn't, and the home directory will not be created. This is can be surprising.

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