On 3/16/26 12:41 PM, Chris Green wrote:
I have a dozen or so computers around the place, mostly running Debian
or a derivative (Rasberry Pi OS).
I'm looking for a lightweight way to maintain their root-owned
configuration files, things like added scripts in /etc/cron.daily,
postfix configuration, systemd additions, etc.
While Ansible will do this it feels like overkill to me, **all** I
really need is to manage files, I'm quite happy starting and stopping
systems 'manually' as it were.
Is there some sort of minimal ansible that will let me do central
management of root-owned files?
Rsync..
I concour with the others in this thread though.
One group for the Debians and one for the pies in the inventory. A
Playbook with the "copy" module looks to be enough..
It's also easy to do privilege escalation.
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John Doe
