That's what I was thinking would be the case, but since the puppetmaster files are also installed in OS X, that must by why a puppet user is required. So is there a way to do a "client only" install of Puppet in OS X?
On Jul 12, 1:47 am, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 11, 2011, at 7:51 PM, treydock wrote: > > > What is the preferred method for running the puppet client in OS X? > > So far all methods I've tried seem to default to running the client as > > the root user. Should this be changed to run as a puppet user? > > > Should I explicitly define "puppet" as the user in puppet.conf? > > > As a test I ran "puppetd --test --debug -v" and successfully had it > > check my puppetmaster while the OS X directories (/etc/puppet, /var/ > > lib/puppet/*) were owned by root, and it still worked. > > Usually the puppet client is run as root because this allows it to change > things in the system. For instance, you can't install packages or change > most files in /etc if you are not root. > > You can run the puppet client as a non-root user. It's just not as common. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
