I see. That is very interesting to know, it was causing me much stress as
to where the permissions were coming from originally. I appreciate the
help again Josh!
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:35:46 PM UTC-5, Josh Cooper wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:49 PM, phundisk
> <alex.f...@currensee.com<javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > I am noticing some very odd behavior with my puppet server and a windows
> > client.
> >
> > For my puppet server I have a module setup similar to this below...
> Please
> > note, I am not setting any permission on this file.
> > file { "C:\\directory\\file.dll":
> > ensure => 'present',
> > source => "puppet:///modules/aaa/file.dll",
> > }
> >
> > The actual permissions in the unix filesystem is set to 644
> >
> > When I apply this to my Windows client, the puppet agent will change the
> > mode of the file already on the server to 0644, which is not what I
> would
> > expect puppet to do. I would expect since it is already there, it would
> not
> > even care about the permissions.
> >
> > I know this is taking the UNIX filesystem permissions because I chmod'd
> the
> > file on the filesystem to 0777 and when running puppet on Windows, it
> took
> > the new permissions.
> >
> > This becomes problematic because I am using puppet environments with an
> SVN
> > checkout system. Every time I update svn checkouts, it defaults to
> 0644.
> > Does anyone know if this is expected behavior or ways around this?
>
> This is "expected" in that windows agents emulate current *nix agent
> behavior. With that said there are issues with the current behavior in
> general. Currently, *nix agents will attempt to apply the remote
> uid/gid to the local system, which may not be what you would expect.
> See http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5240.
>
> You could either set the executable bit on these files in svn[1] or
> define a default mode for file resources[2]. I'd probably go with the
> former.
>
> Josh
>
> [1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.c.propset.html
> [2] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html#resource-defaults
> --
> Josh Cooper
> Developer, Puppet Labs
>
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