Puppet users - Jul 2013 - Puppet Enterprise no longer catching "Press Enter to Continue" at end of Exec

I have been working on automating our deployment process which includes a 
call to an application that expects the user to press Enter when it is 
complete.  Under Puppet Enterprise 2.8.2 it works fine and automatically 
catches that the process is completed but with Puppet Enterprise 3.0.0 
installed as the agent it hangs and fails on timeout.
Anyone else experience this?  Is there a work around?  Should I enter a bug?
The agent in question is a Windows 2008 R2, I wasn’t able to find a bug 
with a quick search but wasn’t sure if that was just my newness to the 
system.
Thanks in advance

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Scott Crowe <scott.crowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been working on automating our deployment process which includes a
> call to an application that expects the user to press Enter when it is
> complete.
>
The puppet agent runs as LocalSystem, and in newer versions of Windows, the
LocalSystem account is not allowed to interact with the logged in
user''s
desktop. Otherwise, it can lead to shatter (privilege escalation)
attacks[1].

>  Under Puppet Enterprise 2.8.2 it works fine and automatically catches
> that the process is completed but with Puppet Enterprise 3.0.0 installed as
> the agent it hangs and fails on timeout.
>
I didn''t follow what you meant by "catches that the process is
completed"?
I can''t think of any change in any version of Puppet on Windows that
would
result in different behavior...

I''d recommend installing Process Explorer when the PE 3.0 agent hangs.
I''m
guessing you will see a child application also running, and likely waiting
for user input.

Anyone else experience this?  Is there a work around?  Should I enter a
bug?
>
What application is puppet trying to execute? Could you put together a
reproducible test case? One question I have to ask, is why does a human
need to press Enter if you are trying to automate this?

> The agent in question is a Windows 2008 R2, I wasn’t able to find a bug
> with a quick search but wasn’t sure if that was just my newness to the
> system.
> Thanks in advance
>
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Josh

[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684190(v=vs.85).aspx

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