[Puppet Users] Puppet configuration: user

2012-08-10 Thread Axel Bock
Hi readers, I am having trouble understanding the puppet user= configuration setting in the puppet.conf file. If puppet is configured to run as puppet by default, how can puppet execute system configuration settings? installing packages etc. is done basically by root and root only, so does

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet configuration: user

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Hendry
Hi, user= is for the puppetmaster user which does not need to run as root. Regards, Andrew On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Axel Bock axel.b...@arbeitsagentur.de wrote: Hi readers, I am having trouble understanding the puppet user= configuration setting in the puppet.conf file. If puppet is