Puppet 3.8 client on Ubuntu 14.04

[Albert Shamsiyan]

Hi, 

I'm new with puppet and I help with agent server communication. 

• Server installed on CentOS 65 and called puupetmaster.home 
  
• Agent installed on Ubuntu 14.01 and called wikitest.home 

1. I get "puppet", When I hit the following command on the agent puppet agent --configprint server
2. Agent config file looks as follows: 
   

[main]
logdir=/var/log/puppet
vardir=/var/lib/puppet
ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
rundir=/var/run/puppet
factpath=$vardir/lib/facter
templatedir=$confdir/templates
[master]
# These are needed when the puppetmaster is run by passenger
# and can safely be removed if webrick is used.
ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN
ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY
[agent]
server=puppetmaster.home
#environment=production

What can be  the problem? 

[Albert Shamsiyan]

My bad .... 

executing "puppet agent --configprint server" will always show "puppet" because it's the default value, however, when executing  "sudo puppet agent --configprint server" will print out the correct value 

[Zee Alexander]

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 4:03:58 AM UTC-8, Albert Shamsiyan wrote:

My bad .... 

executing "puppet agent --configprint server" will always show "puppet" because it's the default value

That's not quite true.

Per-user Puppet configuration lives in ~/.puppet or ~/.puppetlabs, depending on the version of Puppet you're running. That being said,

, however, when executing  "sudo puppet agent --configprint server" will print out the correct value 

If you're running the puppet agent as root, which is standard practice, you are almost always going to need to run commands as root for them to function the way you expect. There's basically no scenario where you should be running a puppet command as non-root, if the agent is running as root, with the exception of non-agent/daemon tools, like `puppet module generate`.