That's what I was thinking would be the case, but since the
puppetmaster files are also installed in OS X, that must by why a
puppet user is required. So is there a way to do a client only
install of Puppet in OS X?
On Jul 12, 1:47 am, Patrick kc7...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 11, 2011, at 7:51 PM, treydock wrote:
What is the preferred method for running the puppet client in OS X?
So far all methods I've tried seem to default to running the client as
the root user. Should this be changed to run as a puppet user?
Should I explicitly define puppet as the user in puppet.conf?
As a test I ran puppetd --test --debug -v and successfully had it
check my puppetmaster while the OS X directories (/etc/puppet, /var/
lib/puppet/*) were owned by root, and it still worked.
Usually the puppet client is run as root because this allows it to change
things in the system. For instance, you can't install packages or change
most files in /etc if you are not root.
You can run the puppet client as a non-root user. It's just not as common.
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