Issue #6865 has been updated by R.I. Pienaar.

Mohamed Lrhazi wrote:
> am not sure I understand. Are you saying you would be willing to accept 
> --options, if it came with an "allowed_options" config setting? or you would 
> rather see two additional boolean options only, --noop and no-noop?

I am saying with a whitelist of option - not a blacklist - I think its safe, 
but first price would be passable boolean options.  

> mcollective can affect systems that are unreachable via SSH, say due to LDAP 
> issue, like we had recently after some ssl certs were updated on the LDAP 
> servers... so it could act as an "out-of-band" path to access and fix some 
> problem that would otherwise require console access to each and every 
> system... So, there might be cases where the ability to run puppetd in an 
> "unexpected" way, might be useful.
> 

that's true, if you want to hack on the whitelist as described I think that 
will address my concerns

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Feature #6865: Proposed patch to add support to puppetd agent extra command 
line args
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6865

Author: Mohamed Lrhazi
Status: Needs Decision
Priority: Normal
Assignee: R.I. Pienaar
Category: 
Target version: 
Keywords: 
Branch: 
Affected mCollective version: 


I am suggesting a patch for puppetd agent, which allows the user to pass 
arbitrary command line arguments to be passed to puppetd.

Please the forked here, branch name: puppetd_options

https://github.com/lrhazi/mcollective-plugins

Thanks.


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