[Puppet Users] Re: Using Puppet on Machines Where I Don't Have Root?
2009/5/27 Brian Ferris bdfer...@gmail.com: I understand that I can only edit files where permissions allow. But can I run puppet without a puppet user? Basically, after reading over the documentation, I noticed a number of references to users (puppet) and paths (/var/...) that puppet needs to run that I won't be able to create / have access to because I don't have root on the boxes. But I didn't see any obvious command lines options / config settings for changing those users and paths. I understand if this is not how puppet was designed to be used, but I figured I'd give it a shot. You can use --confdir: puppetmasterd --verbose --confdir /home/user/puppet/ gepetto might help you setup a sandboxed local puppetmaster and client http://github.com/albanpeignier/gepetto/tree/master The other option here is to not run puppetd/puppetmasterd and just use the puppet binary and some other way of distributing manifests and use puppet executable to run them. Paul --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Puppet Users] Re: Using Puppet on Machines Where I Don't Have Root?
One of the reasons I initially missed these command line options is because I apparently have an issue with --help and the fact that I installed puppet using a gem. Is there some easy way of fixing that? Or is there a webpage that lists all the command-line args that I'm not seeing? On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Paul Nasrat pnas...@googlemail.comwrote: 2009/5/27 Brian Ferris bdfer...@gmail.com: I understand that I can only edit files where permissions allow. But can I run puppet without a puppet user? Basically, after reading over the documentation, I noticed a number of references to users (puppet) and paths (/var/...) that puppet needs to run that I won't be able to create / have access to because I don't have root on the boxes. But I didn't see any obvious command lines options / config settings for changing those users and paths. I understand if this is not how puppet was designed to be used, but I figured I'd give it a shot. You can use --confdir: puppetmasterd --verbose --confdir /home/user/puppet/ gepetto might help you setup a sandboxed local puppetmaster and client http://github.com/albanpeignier/gepetto/tree/master The other option here is to not run puppetd/puppetmasterd and just use the puppet binary and some other way of distributing manifests and use puppet executable to run them. Paul --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Puppet Users] Re: Using Puppet on Machines Where I Don't Have Root?
2009/5/26 Brian Ferris bdfer...@gmail.com: I'd like to use puppet to manage configuration files on a couple of machines. The catch is that I don't have root on these machines. Is this possible? What kind of issues am I going to run into? well you can do anything with puppet the user you're running it as has permissions to do. So if your user is allowed to manage whatever configuration files you're looking to manage, then sure. If you want to manage a resource that's not owned by your user, then puppet can't help you with your privilege esclation needs. .r' --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Puppet Users] Re: Using Puppet on Machines Where I Don't Have Root?
Run puppet --genconfig and find all the parameters that would need to be changed to make it work. Most if not all of the important stuff can be modified by either args to puppet/d or via the puppet.conf Chris On May 26, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Brian Ferris wrote: I understand that I can only edit files where permissions allow. But can I run puppet without a puppet user? Basically, after reading over the documentation, I noticed a number of references to users (puppet) and paths (/var/...) that puppet needs to run that I won't be able to create / have access to because I don't have root on the boxes. But I didn't see any obvious command lines options / config settings for changing those users and paths. I understand if this is not how puppet was designed to be used, but I figured I'd give it a shot. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:19 PM, RijilV rij...@riji.lv wrote: 2009/5/26 Brian Ferris bdfer...@gmail.com: I'd like to use puppet to manage configuration files on a couple of machines. The catch is that I don't have root on these machines. Is this possible? What kind of issues am I going to run into? well you can do anything with puppet the user you're running it as has permissions to do. So if your user is allowed to manage whatever configuration files you're looking to manage, then sure. If you want to manage a resource that's not owned by your user, then puppet can't help you with your privilege esclation needs. .r' --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
