Issue #23053 has been updated by Andrew Parker.
Status changed from Unreviewed to Rejected
Per the resolution for #5224 puppet unsets the `HOME` environment variable when
executing commands. Right or wrong, that is what is happening here.
Corey, I believe your fix doesn't work because `#{ENV['HOME']}` results in an
empty string and so I suspect that you are not ending up with the `.puppet`
directory that is in the user's home directory.
John, I think your solution is more robust, but it also removes some of the
flexibility that we get by using `HOME`.
The real solution in this case is to specify the HOME environment for the exec
resource.
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Bug #23053: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~/.puppet' when
running puppet command as non root
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/23053#change-99625
* Author: Corey Osman
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee:
* Category:
* Target version:
* Affected Puppet version: 2.6.0
* Keywords: nonroot
* Branch:
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Puppet seems to have an issue when trying to call itself. This would normally
work under root permission but when using a non root user it can't seem to find
its HOME despite the .puppet directory exists.
for the longest time I though this was just my problem but now its easy to
reproduce.
Below is a simple test you can run to reproduce the issue. While printing the
config issue is not something we do, the output is the same no matter what
puppet command you run.
<pre>
cat > test.pp << EOF
exec{'puppet_test_nonroot':
path => ['/bin', '/usr/sbin', '/sbin', '/usr/bin'],
command => 'puppet config print > /tmp/puppetconfig.txt',
logoutput => true
}
EOF
puppet apply --verbose test.pp
</pre>
You should get the error:
<pre>
Notice: /Stage[main]//Exec[puppet_test_nonroot]/returns: Error: Could not
intialize global default settings: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding
`~/.puppet'
Error: puppet config print > /tmp/puppetconfig.txt returned 1 instead of one of
[0]
Error: /Stage[main]//Exec[puppet_test_nonroot]/returns: change from notrun to 0
failed: puppet config print > /tmp/puppetconfig.txt returned 1 instead of one
of [0]
</pre>
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