Hi Nick,

Your suggestion is not working.

Actually when we try to connect the agent to the puppet through a
different user, no ssl directory got created under /var/lib/puppet in
agent side.

Can you provide some light on this.

Your help would be most appreciated.

Thanks
Prosenjit

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Prosenjit Ghosh <prosenji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much for your time.
> WIll try that.
> Actually we have written a module on puppet-master which will run one
> command (Installer command) on agent node when any agent connects to
> the master.
> This command wont work if this has root permission.
> So we install and configure puppet master and agent using some other
> user except "root". This worked successfully.
> Now we are not able to connect the agent to the puppet master using
> this different user except "root". This is the problem.
> Anyway we will give this a try as per your suggestion.
>
> And also thanks very much for our help.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Nick Fagerlund
> <nick.fagerl...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>> I don't understand what you're doing. But it sounds like you might need the
>> "user" attribute of the exec type?
>>
>> exec {'some command':
>>   user => 'admin',
>> }
>>
>> See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#exec and scroll
>> down a bit.
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:50:28 AM UTC-7, Prosenjit Ghosh wrote:
>>>
>>> Created a puppet master in one Linux.X64/rh50 machine.
>>> Created a puppet agent in another Linux.X64/rh50 machine.
>>>
>>> Need to run any command from puppet master and that will execute in puppet
>>> agent when puppet agent will connect to puppet master.
>>>
>>> This is happening correctly for me when created master and agent through
>>> root user.
>>>
>>> But I need to execute a command that wont allow root user. I need any user
>>> except root. I tried successfully to create puppet master through a
>>> different user. But not able to execute the command when connecting the
>>> agent through that different user.
>>>
>>> Any suggestion on this how to connect agent to the master through a
>>> different user to execute a command through puppet module
>>
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