Jira (FACT-1845) Facter does not scan default global external fact directories when running as an unprivileged user

[Matt Moor (JIRA)]

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Matt Moor created an issue   Facter / FACT-1845 Facter does not scan default global external fact directories when running as an unprivileged user Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: FACT 3.6.10 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2018/04/19 12:48 PM Environment: Brand new Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS cloud-image installation running on KVM 20180413 xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img, SHA256SUM 66b44958699b148fa1e43ada0f1455241d4f5d4245531add2d246a621372cbf0 Puppet and facter were installed from the puppetlabs apt repo, using the following process: wget and dpkg -i { Unknown macro: {https} } update package cache apt-get update Install the puppet-agent package with apt-get install puppet-agent ubuntu@demoau1:~$ puppet --version 4.10.11 ubuntu@demoau1:~$ facter --version 3.6.10 (commit ecf783f2ac05eb026d820524df45ee3dbf01bfe1) ubuntu@demoau1:~$ apt-cache showpkg puppet-agent Package: puppet-agent Versions: 1.10.12-1xenial (/var/lib/apt/lists/apt.puppetlabs.com_dists_xenial_PC1_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status) ubuntu@demoau1:~$ uname -a Linux demoau1 4.4.0-119-generic #143-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 2 16:08:24 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ubuntu@demoau1:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial Priority: Normal Reporter: Matt Moor Facter does not scan /etc/facter/facts.d, /etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d or /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d when running as an unprivileged user. A structured data fact was placed in /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d as role.yaml with contents: --- role: foobar Permissions: ubuntu@demoau1:/opt/puppetlabs/facter$ ls -laR .: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 19 19:05 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Apr 18 22:37 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 19 19:23 facts.d   ./facts.d: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 19 19:23 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 19 19:05 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17 Apr 19 19:23 role.yaml Running facter unprivileged did not resolve this fact: ubuntu@demoau1:~$ facter role --debug 2018-04-19 19:34:23.260015 INFO puppetlabs.facter - executed with command line: role --debug. 2018-04-19 19:34:23.266002 INFO leatherman.ruby:138 - ruby loaded from "/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/libruby.so.2.1.0". 2018-04-19 19:34:23.342265 INFO leatherman.ruby:187 - using ruby version 2.1.9 2018-04-19 19:34:23.344432 INFO puppetlabs.facter - requested queries: role. 2018-04-19 19:34:23.346200 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "facterversion" has resolved to "3.6.10". 2018-04-19 19:34:23.347747 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "aio_agent_version" has resolved to "1.10.12". 2018-04-19 19:34:23.349963 DEBUG leatherman.file_util:65 - Error reading file: No such file or directory 2018-04-19 19:34:23.353104 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - loading all custom facts. 2018-04-19 19:34:23.354621 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - loading custom fact directories from config file 2018-04-19 19:34:23.356144 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - skipping external facts for "/home/ubuntu/.puppetlabs/opt/facter/facts.d": No such file or directory 2018-04-19 19:34:23.357549 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - skipping external facts for "/home/ubuntu/.facter/facts.d": No such file or directory 2018-04-19 19:34:23.358459 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - no external facts were found. 2018-04-19 19:34:23.359508 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "role" does not exist. Running privileged with sudo did resolve this fact: ubuntu@demoau1:~$ sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/facter role --debug 2018-04-19 19:35:17.354442 INFO puppetlabs.facter - executed with command line: role --debug. 2018-04-19 19:35:17.360017 INFO leatherman.ruby:138 - ruby loaded from "/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/libruby.so.2.1.0". 2018-04-19 19:35:17.429612 INFO leatherman.ruby:187 - using ruby version 2.1.9 2018-04-19 19:35:17.431589 INFO puppetlabs.facter - requested queries: role. 2018-04-19 19:35:17.433167 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "facterversion" has resolved to "3.6.10". 2018-04-19 19:35:17.434577 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "aio_agent_version" has resolved to "1.10.12". 2018-04-19 19:35:17.436570 DEBUG leatherman.file_util:65 - Error reading file: No such file or directory 2018-04-19 19:35:17.439399 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - loading all custom facts. 2018-04-19 19:35:17.440684 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - loading custom fact directories from config file 2018-04-19 19:35:17.442063 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - searching "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d" for external facts. 2018-04-19 19:35:17.443571 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - resolving facts from YAML file "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/role.yaml". 2018-04-19 19:35:17.445556 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "role" has resolved to "foobar". 2018-04-19 19:35:17.446548 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - completed resolving facts from YAML file "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/role.yaml". 2018-04-19 19:35:17.446998 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - skipping external facts for "/etc/facter/facts.d": No such file or directory 2018-04-19 19:35:17.447262 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - skipping external facts for "/etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d": No such file or directory foobar Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. 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