Re: [Puppet Users] Running puppet as non-root user

2010-12-14 Thread Jesús Couto
Ok, so, not as strange and uncommon practice as I thought :-P So what do you do in your manifests? I mean, do you code the manifest so you never, ever get to any place Puppet is going to croak due to not being root (that would mean, probably, just exporting template and config files under your acc

Re: [Puppet Users] Running puppet as non-root user

2010-12-13 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 23:30, Jesús Couto wrote: > Lets say that for several administrative/burocratic/procedural reasons, you > dont have the option of running puppet as root, in any way - not as a daemon > on the managed node, nor as root on the command line with puppet apply. Say, > you are t

Re: [Puppet Users] Running puppet as non-root user

2010-12-13 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi. On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Jesús Couto wrote: > Hi. > > Lets say that for several administrative/burocratic/procedural reasons, you > dont have the option of running puppet as root, in any way - not as a daemon > on the managed node, nor as root on the command line with puppet apply. Say,

[Puppet Users] Running puppet as non-root user

2010-12-13 Thread Jesús Couto
Hi. Lets say that for several administrative/burocratic/procedural reasons, you dont have the option of running puppet as root, in any way - not as a daemon on the managed node, nor as root on the command line with puppet apply. Say, you are the "middleware" application team and you dont have the