Consider the following scenario.

I have a PROCESS 1 triggered by COMMAND 1 which is run by USER 1 that
creates a folder FOLDER 1 which is owned by the root as it should be
accessible to all users of the system. Now, before I run COMMAND 1, I
need to run a command COMMAND 2 that clean ups this FOLDER 1 that was
created during the previous run so as to have a fresh start. Since
FOLDER 1 is owned by root, I need to run COMMAND 2 as a root user but
my COMMAND 1 is run by USER 1.

On Jun 25, 1:56 pm, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Nope.  If you feel strongly that there should be, you can drop in a
> feature request or submit a patch, and we would be happy to consider
> it.  Generally, though, it seems like a very strange requirement.  I
> can't imagine why you would need to do those operations as different
> users, although I absolutely believe you when you say that you do.
>
> It would be very helpful, so, if you could explain what the root cause
> of that need is.  :)
>
> Daniel
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:54, ssk1287 <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That is exactly what I ended up using. Isn't there a more "puppetty"
> > way of doing this ?
>
> > On Jun 24, 5:41 pm, Nathan Clemons <nat...@livemocha.com> wrote:
> >> Use su -c <cmd> user?
> >> --
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> >> The worlds largest online language learning communityOn Fri, Jun 24, 2011 
> >> at 3:06 PM, ssk1287 <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I have the following exec in my manifest :
>
> >> > exec { some_exec:
> >> >    path => [ "/bin","/usr/bin","/usr/local/bin" ],
> >> >    command => "EXECUTE COMMAND 1",
> >> >    onlyif => "EXECUTE COMMAND 2",
> >> >    logoutput => "on_failure"
> >> >  }
>
> >> > I want that the "COMMAND 1" should be executed by "USER 1" and
> >> > "COMMAND 2" should be executed by "USER 2". Is there a way to do it ?
> >> > I tried giving the "users" parameter, but that seems to apply to both
> >> > the commands.
>
> >> > Thanks in advance,
>
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