On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 03:05:40PM -0700, jcbollinger wrote:
> I'm not sure why that inherently means you don't have root, but whatever.
> 
> So, supposing the issue is with 
> File["/home/user/rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-2.8.7.tar.gz"], it's not 
> immediately clear to me whether Puppet's behavior is correct here.  It 
> seems to be defaulting the target group to 0 (since you don't specify a 
> group, that has to be coming in as a default).  That's not documented 
> behavior, but it may still be intentional.  On the other hand, it is usual 
> for the agent to run as root, which would mask this behavior.  I would 
> suggest that you file a ticket.
> 

If you do not specify owner/group/mode and you don't have a global
default and the file needs to be created, it will be created with
owner/group/mode of the source file. This can of course fail if the
agent is not run as root.

FWIW there was a discussion about the current behaviour quite a while
ago, but the last comment is over a year old now:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5240

-Stefan

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