I think "ignore" is the correct default on Windows, assuming it results in files / directories that inherit permissions of their parents.
On Friday, January 3, 2014 11:53:22 PM UTC-5, Rob Reynolds wrote: > > Folks supporting Windows, do you have an opinion with this warning? This > may have gotten lost with the holiday season so following up. :) > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Rob Reynolds > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> With the changes for http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18931 (Don't >> set mode on Windows if not specified) & >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5240 (Default ownership for files >> when uid/gid are unspecified), we've created the ability to specify whether >> to use source permissions, use when creating or ignore. We've left the >> default to :use so things work as expected. >> >> However with Windows, when things download they will not use source >> permissions as it is not supported in Windows at all. So what you get is a >> warning for sourced items: >> >> Warning: Copying owner/mode/group from the puppet master to Windows >> agents is not supported; use source_permissions => ignore. >> >> That warning will go away when you've updated all sourced files to add >> that in your manifests. >> >> Would anyone be at odds with us moving the default for windows for >> sourced items to ignore the source permissions? This would remove the >> warning that gets displayed in the upcoming version until you would change >> all sourced files to add `source_permissions => :ignore`. >> >> That way you would only see the warning if you tried to explicitly set >> the source_permissions for a file. >> >> -- >> Rob Reynolds >> Developer, Puppet Labs >> >> Join us at PuppetConf 2014, September 23-24 in San Francisco >> > > > > -- > Rob Reynolds > Developer, Puppet Labs > > Join us at PuppetConf 2014, September 23-24 in San Francisco > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/05f05e77-64e0-452d-b53f-8ce365a3fc8d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
