Hi, user= is for the puppetmaster user which does not need to run as root.
Regards, Andrew On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Axel Bock <axel.b...@arbeitsagentur.de> wrote: > Hi readers, > > I am having trouble understanding the puppet user= configuration setting in > the puppet.conf file. If puppet is configured to run as "puppet" by default, > how can puppet execute system configuration settings? installing packages > etc. is done basically by root and root only, so does that mean that puppet > is normally limited in the things it can perform? > > I did not find anything in the docs regarding this, so please help me out > here. > > > thanks in advance & greetings, > Axel. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/24kJzbO_VZsJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
