On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Pieter Baele <pieter.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > We use a script to edit /etc/sudoers temporarily to provide sudo access to > clients for a limited time. > A cron job checks for a var and after a defined time the line is deleted. > > But this way, /etc/sudoers can't be managed by Puppet, because It will be > overwritten by puppet. > > What should I use as a solution to this problem? >
If you are using sudo v1.7.x (not the default on RHEL/Centos) you can use the #include feature of sudoers, to put your temp changes in a different file, and have puppet manage the master sudoers file. http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/man/sudoers.html#including_other_files_from_within_sudoers -Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.