Issue #5240 has been updated by John Bollinger.
Analogous behavior is exhibited for the 'mode' property as well, as has recently been discussed [on puppet-users.](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/puppet-users/CI7pEUHknm4/sZB4iRS76zEJ) Specifically, if a File resource declares a 'source' but not a 'mode' then Puppet manages the mode of the target file to be the mode of the source file, even when the target already exists and its content matches the source's. This is completely wrong: if the resource declaration does not specify a mode, then Puppet should not modify the mode of the existing file. ---------------------------------------- Bug #5240: Default ownership for newly created files when uid/gid are unspecified https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5240#change-81386 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 -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
