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'
>
>
>
>
> >
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