If you have enough root access to make changes, I have successfully used yum as 
a different user by chowning the various yum state and cache directories. 
Probably not the best plan but YMMV.

On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:16 AM, David Gordon wrote:
> Yes, it does run as non-root, and it's one reason I've not used Puppet's yum 
> support..
> 
> I very much wish it could run as root.  It would make life so much simpler.
> 
> On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 6:46:22 PM UTC+1, Dean Wilson wrote:
> On 20 February 2013 17:40, David Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
> > Thanks, but I've got to do this without any root access at all... 
> 
> Does your puppet run as a non-root user? if so you'll probably get bitten by 
> - 
> 
> vi +/'def checkRootUID' /usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py 
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