I run puppet via cron as my local user, for basic stuff. One of my
favorites is an auto-cleaning temporary directory. I throw cruft in
here, and I won't miss it after two weeks, and no more manual cleanup.
For example, my ~/.puppet.pp:
tidy { "/home/rladams/tmp":
age => "2w"
, backup => false
, recurse => true
, rmdirs => true
, type => "mtime"
}
Crontab:
0 5 * * * /usr/bin/puppet --verbose /home/rladams/.puppet.pp >
~/.puppet.log 2>&1
You can't do anything that requires root privs, but you can
create/maintain directories, perms on files you own, operations, etc.
Good luck!
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:07:48PM -0400, Sam Rowe wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Jon Stanley <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I know that this sounds crazy and likely is :), but I was wondering if
> > for application configuration management, there's a way to run puppet
> > as a non-root user. ?I know that lots of the types won't be available
> > when not running as root, but I think that the main purpose here is
> > deploying application configuration files, not maintaining the system.
> > ?My guess is that the only type that would still be applicable is
> > file, maybe an exec type to restart the app.
>
> We've wanted the same thing. I'd love to have a way to delegate some
> subset of the puppet config to our applications group so that they can
> get all of the puppet features and not break our stuff or have root.
>
> >
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