Puppet users - Jan 2012 - Facter pick up variables from ENV hash of non-root USER

Hi,

Does anyone have an idea to pick up custom facts from the ENV hash of a
non-root user. I''m asking as I believe the plugin modules for facter
pick
up the ENV variables of the root user by default.

Cheers

-- 
Argha Chattopadhyay

-- 
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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Argha Chattopadhyay
<orgho@thoughtworks.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have an idea to pick up custom facts from the ENV hash of a
> non-root user. I''m asking as I believe the plugin modules for
facter pick up
> the ENV variables of the root user by default.
Facter will pickup ENV variables for whatever user is running Puppet.
In nearly all cases, that is root on an agent. So, that''s not
extremely simple.  If you have a look at Puppet Labs stdlib[1], you
could drop facts into a facts.d directory with it, and possibly
achieve the same thing as environment variables from other users.  You
could optionally write custom facts with those values, or somehow pass
them into root''s environment. In any case, I don''t see a
straightforward way to do exactly what you asked.


[1] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/stdlib
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Argha Chattopadhyay
>
> --
> 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+unsubscribe@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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.

Hi,

On 01/06/2012 10:57 AM, Argha Chattopadhyay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have an idea to pick up custom facts from the ENV hash of a
> non-root user. I''m asking as I believe the plugin modules for
facter
> pick up the ENV variables of the root user by default.
there seems to be a misconception: The environment is process-specific,
not user specific. You will typically alter your user account''s login
shell configuration to ensure that shell has a certain environment, but
that''s all it is - customization of one chosen process.

Don''t try and alter puppet''s behaviour by altering you bashrc
or
similar, you *will* shoot yourself in the foot.

Depending on what you need to achieve, there might be several ways to go
about the problem. A simple way might be to write a simple shell wrapper
around puppet that exports all your desired environment variables etc.

HTH,
Felix

-- 
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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.