Hi Alex, On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:49 PM, phundisk <[email protected]> wrote: > I am noticing some very odd behavior with my puppet server and a windows > client. > > For my puppet server I have a module setup similar to this below... Please > note, I am not setting any permission on this file. > file { "C:\\directory\\file.dll": > ensure => 'present', > source => "puppet:///modules/aaa/file.dll", > } > > The actual permissions in the unix filesystem is set to 644 > > When I apply this to my Windows client, the puppet agent will change the > mode of the file already on the server to 0644, which is not what I would > expect puppet to do. I would expect since it is already there, it would not > even care about the permissions. > > I know this is taking the UNIX filesystem permissions because I chmod'd the > file on the filesystem to 0777 and when running puppet on Windows, it took > the new permissions. > > This becomes problematic because I am using puppet environments with an SVN > checkout system. Every time I update svn checkouts, it defaults to 0644. > Does anyone know if this is expected behavior or ways around this?
This is "expected" in that windows agents emulate current *nix agent behavior. With that said there are issues with the current behavior in general. Currently, *nix agents will attempt to apply the remote uid/gid to the local system, which may not be what you would expect. See http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5240. You could either set the executable bit on these files in svn[1] or define a default mode for file resources[2]. I'd probably go with the former. Josh [1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.c.propset.html [2] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html#resource-defaults -- Josh Cooper Developer, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
