On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jeff Sussna <j...@ingineering.it> wrote:
> I want to use Puppet and Facter on a machine where I don't have sudo
> or root access privileges. I won't be using Puppet for anything that
> requires that level of access, so I should be OK if I can get it on
> the box. Any advice on how to proceed? Currently the Facter installer
> complains that it doesn't have privileges for /usr/bin/facter. I
> assume Puppet will have the same complain about /etc/puppet.
>
> Am trying to install Puppet 2.7.6/Facter 1.6.1 from source on SLES 11
> in case that matters.

You could clone the sources from git in your home directory and then
set your RUBYLIB environment variable to look in those cloned
directories and adjust $PATH accordingly.  That would probably be
easier than trying to use a package that assumes root rights.


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