On Jul 11, 2011, at 7:51 PM, treydock wrote: > What is the preferred method for running the puppet client in OS X? > So far all methods I've tried seem to default to running the client as > the root user. Should this be changed to run as a puppet user? > > Should I explicitly define "puppet" as the user in puppet.conf? > > As a test I ran "puppetd --test --debug -v" and successfully had it > check my puppetmaster while the OS X directories (/etc/puppet, /var/ > lib/puppet/*) were owned by root, and it still worked.
Usually the puppet client is run as root because this allows it to change things in the system. For instance, you can't install packages or change most files in /etc if you are not root. You can run the puppet client as a non-root user. It's just not as common. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
