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.bock@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.
>
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