Jira (PUP-3457) should Puppet::Util::Execution.execute try to switch uid if the user running the command == :uid?

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Igor Galić created an issue   Puppet / PUP-3457 should Puppet::Util::Execution.execute try to switch uid if the user running the command == :uid? Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 14/Oct/14 7:54 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Igor Galić we have a provider with the following getter and setter: Puppet::Type.type(:git_config).provide(:git_config) do   mk_resource_methods   def value require 'etc' user = @property_hash[:user] = @resource[:user] key = @property_hash[:key] = @resource[:key] section = @property_hash[:section] = @resource[:section] home = Etc.getpwnam(user)[:dir]   current = Puppet::Util::Execution.execute( "git config --global --get #{section}.#{key}", :uid => user, :failonfail => false, :custom_environment => { 'HOME' => home } ) @property_hash[:value] = current.strip @property_hash[:value] end   def value=(value) require 'etc' user = @resource[:user] key = @resource[:key] section = @resource[:section] home = Etc.getpwnam(user)[:dir]   Puppet::Util::Execution.execute( "git config --global #{section}.#{key} '#{value}'", :uid => user, :failonfail => true, :custom_environment => { 'HOME' => home } ) end end during development, most unintuitively, the getter would "work" (we assumed because of :failonfail, but the setter wouldn't. it turns out the reason was that we supplied :uid, and puppet tries set it, even though the user executing puppet was the one provided in :uid so the question: should we try to switch to the provided uid, or should we first check if we aren't already there? Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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/d/optout.