On Wednesday, December 25, 2013 9:47:39 AM UTC-6, Felix.Frank wrote: > > Hi, > > for what it's worth - the error seems to indicate that su considers > "/usr/local/bin/git config remote.origin.url" to be the name of an > executable file that contains a space. >
I agree that it looks like the whole command argument is being interpreted as a file name, but unless the su in question is very different from GNU su, that mistake is probably being committed by whatever shell su starts, not by su itself. It is the shell's job to parse the command. That distinction could be very important to tracing down the error. According to its docs, GNU su uses the shell specified in the target user's passwd entry, falling back to /bin/sh if none is specified. If the target user in this case has some weird shell configured, then perhaps it parses commands unfavorably. On the other hand, if the user's shell is anything from the Bourne family (e.g. bash or zsh) then I would be inclined to guess that there is a problem related to the IFS environment variable. On the third hand, [t]csh always splits words at blanks and tabs, so the problem I hypothesize should not occur if that's the configured shell. I cannot speak directly to the environment Puppet provides to the su command, but in general Puppet provides a minimal environment to commands it spawns. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/78e749a4-bffc-48b5-9885-10cd344f22f7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
