On Friday, October 12, 2012 2:58:16 AM UTC-5, saurabh kumar wrote: > > my puppet-server is running via root-user , while my puppet client is > running via a non-root user.
That is exactly backwards. The master does not need to run as a privileged user, therefore it should not do so. The client, on the other hand, normally *does* need to run as a privileged user (e.g. root) because that is necessary for managing most resources of interest. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/_pOP2VrGvAQJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.