Issue #17371 has been updated by Andreas Ntaflos.

Jeff, we use Foreman for provisioning of machines, and Foreman (or its smart 
proxy) needs to update autosign.conf for provisioning to work. The canonical 
way of letting Foreman do that was to set `mode = 0664` on autosign.conf and 
add the Foreman proxy user to the puppet group (`adduser foreman-proxy 
puppet`). 

This doesn't work at the moment, but we work around it by doing a `chown 
foreman-proxy /etc/puppet/autosign.conf`, so that the Foreman proxy user owns 
the file and can thus write to it. I suppose it is because of this bug the 
ownership does not get reset.

So for us this is really more of an annoyance than a blocker, so long as the 
described workaround can be applied.
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Bug #17371: Setting owner, group, mode for files specified in puppet.conf no 
longer seems to work
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17371#change-76571

Author: Andreas Ntaflos
Status: In Topic Branch Pending Review
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Dominic Cleal
Category: settings
Target version: 3.0.x
Affected Puppet version: 3.0.0
Keywords: settings mode permissions run_mode
Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1278


It seems that setting owner, group and mode for files in puppet.conf by using 
the following method, as explained in the configuration guide, no longer works 
in Puppet 3.0 (using Puppet 3.0.1 here on Ubuntu 12.04):

    /etc/puppet/puppet.conf:

    [master]
    ...
    autosign = /etc/puppet/autosign.conf { owner = puppet, group = puppet, mode 
= 0664 }

The settings specified in the curly braces do not get applied to the file. 

Instead, after changing the mode manually (`chmod 0664 
/etc/puppet/autosign.conf`) it is reset to 0644 after a request to the 
puppetmaster comes in. Interestingly it seems that when manually changing the 
owner of the file it stays changed, even after a request comes in that triggers 
the manually changed mode to be reset.

And as nfagerlund observed on IRC it seems that specifying an owner keeps the 
mode setting from working. Setting a mode alone, i.e. `autosign = 
/etc/puppet/autosign.conf { mode = 0664 }` works.


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