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.com>wrote:
>
> 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
>
> >
>
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