Issue #5240 has been updated by Markus Falb.

Nigel Kersten wrote:
> Markus Falb wrote:
> > You are probably right. But how can one identify files that have "wrong" 
> > owner or groupship then, caused by puppet before fixed by this bug ?
> 
> I don't think the idea of "wrong" ownership is coherent if you're not 
> defining what the owner/group should be.

This ticket is about "puppet was doing wrong ownership for files". Of course 
you can say "It is fixed now and its up to you to fix all files created by 
recent versions of puppet".
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Bug #5240: Default ownership
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5240

Author: Markus Falb
Status: Investigating
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: file
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 0.25.5
Keywords: 
Branch: 


    file { "/bla/bla.txt":
        ensure => file,
        source => "puppet:///bla/bla.txt",
    }

The file on puppetmaster belongs to user x with uid y and it is created on the 
client with uid y whatever user this translates to.
A user for uid y may or may not exists on the client. uids/gids on puppetmaster 
and puppetd are not necessarily synchronised. If I forget to set a ownership 
explicitly possibly unrelated users on the client may access files. This 
behaviour is potentially unsecure.

On puppetmaster (note the -n switch):
    #$ ls -n bla.txt
    -rw-r--r--  1 502  301  4  8 Nov 16:25 bla.txt

The result on the client (user/group does not exist):
    #$ ls -l bla.txt
    -rw-r--r-- 1 502 301 4 Nov  8 16:39 bla.txt


Expected behaviour: I would like to rely on reasonable defaults. When no 
user/group is explicitly defined, files should be created with ownership of the 
user puppet runs as:

    #$ ls -l bla.txt
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Nov  8 16:39 bla.txt


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