Issue #22349 has been updated by Melissa Stone. Status changed from Merged - Pending Release to Closed
Release in Facter 1.7.4-rc1 ---------------------------------------- Bug #22349: Facter fails to run as a non-root user when /etc/facter/facts.d is not readable https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/22349#change-101221 * Author: Andrew Parker * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: * Target version: 1.7.4 * Keywords: * Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/531 * Affected Facter version: 1.7.0 ---------------------------------------- If the `/etc/facter/facts.d` directory is available, but not readable, then facter, when run as a non-root user will still try to read from it and fail. <pre> [vagrant@localhost ~]$ ls -l /etc/facter total 4 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 19:25 facts.d [vagrant@localhost ~]$ facter Error: Permission denied - /etc/facter/facts.d </pre> If that directory is made readable, then facter will work. <pre> [vagrant@localhost ~]$ sudo chmod o+r /etc/facter/facts.d [vagrant@localhost ~]$ ls -l /etc/facter total 4 drwxr-xr-- 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 19:25 facts.d [vagrant@localhost ~]$ facter architecture => x86_64 augeasversion => 0.9.0 </pre> As of Puppet 3.0.0, puppet will now look in ~/.puppet for its configuration information (#16637); however, facter, when it got external facts (#2157) and suddenly had the ability to read from a specific directory, did not take into account what user it was running as. This causes the problem above, which prevents facter from running for a non-root user, but also stops puppet from running as non-root. Facter needs to follow puppet's lead and use a user-local directory when it isn't running as root. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
