Jira (PUP-4394) Regression: Webrick fails to start if the puppet user and group don't exist

[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

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Josh Cooper commented on PUP-4394   Re: Regression: Webrick fails to start if the puppet user and group don't exist I verified webrick master provides an error message and gracefully exits if the puppet user does not exist: $ sudo bundle exec puppet resource user puppet user { 'puppet': ensure => 'absent', } $ sudo bundle exec puppet resource group puppet group { 'puppet': ensure => 'absent', } $ sudo bundle exec puppet master --no-daemonize Error: Could not run: Could not change user to puppet. User does not exist and is required to continue. Created the `puppet` user and group, and puppet master runs successfully: $ sudo bundle exec puppet resource group puppet ensure=present Notice: /Group[puppet]/ensure: created group { 'puppet': ensure => 'present', } $ sudo bundle exec puppet resource user puppet ensure=present groups=puppet Notice: /User[puppet]/ensure: created user { 'puppet': ensure => 'present', } $ sudo bundle exec puppet master --no-daemonize Notice: Starting Puppet master version 4.0.0 Also verified puppet master issues an error when trying to run as a non-existent user, other than puppet, verified error message contains the specified user: $ sudo bundle exec puppet master --no-daemonize --user foobarisnothere Error: Could not run: Could not change user to foobarisnothere. User does not exist and is required to continue. Oddly, puppet continues if the group does not exist: $ sudo bundle exec puppet master --no-daemonize --group neitherisbaz Warning: could not change to group "neitherisbaz": Invalid group: neitherisbaz could not change to group "neitherisbaz" Notice: Starting Puppet master version 4.0.0 This behavior was changed in 2006, see https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/a46a620486b106ffc8e653b48a1de58ca6a64933?diff=unified#diff-ce35cdb90e475558cadaba655f1868fdR121. Only the webrick puppet master calls Puppet::Util.chuser. Since that is deprecated, and it's been this way forever, I don't see any reason to fix it. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346-sha1:dbc023d) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.