Puppet windows File permissions

[mparrad]

Hi Guys, I'm recently start working with puppet and mostly puppet for windows, On linux works perfect, but on windows works fine!, but I got a issue working on c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\config folder, I need modify the file applicationHost.config using puppet, to keep centralized the config for IIS, but when I run the puppet agent for windows the behavior it's real weird, The execution finish without errors, also said the file was updated, or created, but when I take a look to the file, it's remain without changes.

I'm working with puppet master 2.7.1 on CentOS 5.7 server, and puppet for windows 2.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 server...

I tried changing the permissions to the folder, I put read/write permission, I put Full control, I take ownership, but nothing, when I run the puppet agent I got the next:

On puppet master i wrote this init.pp for a module called iisconfig:

class iisconfig()
{
file { 'C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts':
        ensure => present,
        content => template("/etc/puppet/modules/iisconfig/files/hosts"),
        }

file { 'C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config':
        ensure => 'present',
        content => template('/etc/puppet/modules/iisconfig/files/applicationHost.config'),
        }

file { "c:/temp/test.txt":
        ensure => 'file',
        mode => '660',
        owner => 'Administrator',
        group => 'Administrators',
        content => template('/etc/puppet/modules/iisconfig/files/applicationHost.config'),
        }
}

This is the execution
C:\temp>puppet agent --test
notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run
info: Retrieving plugin
info: Caching catalog for test01.office.com
info: Applying configuration version '1330497348'
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts]/content:
info: FileBucket adding {md5}f6b9e9fce03e4bbd9952814d55353857
info: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts]: Filebucketed C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts to puppet sum f6b9e9fce03e4bbd9952814d55353857
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts]/content: content changed '{md5}f6b9e9fce03e4bbd9952814d55353 to '{md5}32aca7ae45f022642e2f5b0156dcb3ca'
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[c:/temp/test.txt]/content:
info: FileBucket adding {md5}b3589a284c00ce9a67dd42ccaf15e46d
info: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[c:/temp/test.txt]: Filebucketed c:/temp/test.txt to puppet with sum b3589a284c00ce9a67dd42ccaf15e46d
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[c:/temp/test.txt]/content: content changed '{md5}b3589a284c00ce9a67dd42ccaf15e46d' to '{md5}881bfbf113937635f5c35241ed2'
notice: Finished catalog run in 8.25 seconds
notice: /File[C:/ProgramData/PuppetLabs/puppet/var/state/last_run_summary.yaml]/content:


The first file and the last one works fine, but the file I need to modify didn't works, but also didn't show any error message or something....

Could you please give me any directions? or tell me What I doing wrong?

Thanks..

[Josh Cooper]

Hi Marco,

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:46 AM, mparrad <marco....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Guys, I'm recently start working with puppet and mostly puppet for windows, On linux works perfect, but on windows works fine!, but I got a issue working on c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\config folder, I need modify the file applicationHost.config using puppet, to keep centralized the config for IIS, but when I run the puppet agent for windows the behavior it's real weird, The execution finish without errors, also said the file was updated, or created, but when I take a look to the file, it's remain without changes.

I'm working with puppet master 2.7.1 on CentOS 5.7 server, and puppet for windows 2.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 server...

Are you running puppet agent from cmd.exe? or as a service? If the former, can you run: whoami /groups

I tried changing the permissions to the folder, I put read/write permission, I put Full control, I take ownership, but nothing, when I run the puppet agent I got the next:

On puppet master i wrote this init.pp for a module called iisconfig:

class iisconfig()
{
file { 'C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts':
        ensure => present,
        content => template("/etc/puppet/modules/iisconfig/files/hosts"),
        }

file { 'C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config':
        ensure => 'present',
        content => template('/etc/puppet/modules/iisconfig/files/applicationHost.config'),
        }

Can you try changing content => 'some literal string'? I'm curious if this is a templating issue.

 

file { "c:/temp/test.txt":
        ensure => 'file',
        mode => '660',
        owner => 'Administrator',
        group => 'Administrators',
        content => template('/etc/puppet/modules/iisconfig/files/applicationHost.config'),
        }
}

This is the execution
C:\temp>puppet agent --test
notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run
info: Retrieving plugin
info: Caching catalog for test01.office.com
info: Applying configuration version '1330497348'
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts]/content:
info: FileBucket adding {md5}f6b9e9fce03e4bbd9952814d55353857
info: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts]: Filebucketed C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts to puppet sum f6b9e9fce03e4bbd9952814d55353857
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts]/content: content changed '{md5}f6b9e9fce03e4bbd9952814d55353 to '{md5}32aca7ae45f022642e2f5b0156dcb3ca'
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[c:/temp/test.txt]/content:
info: FileBucket adding {md5}b3589a284c00ce9a67dd42ccaf15e46d
info: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[c:/temp/test.txt]: Filebucketed c:/temp/test.txt to puppet with sum b3589a284c00ce9a67dd42ccaf15e46d
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[c:/temp/test.txt]/content: content changed '{md5}b3589a284c00ce9a67dd42ccaf15e46d' to '{md5}881bfbf113937635f5c35241ed2'
notice: Finished catalog run in 8.25 seconds
notice: /File[C:/ProgramData/PuppetLabs/puppet/var/state/last_run_summary.yaml]/content:


The first file and the last one works fine, but the file I need to modify didn't works, but also didn't show any error message or something....

Yeah, that's no good. Hopefully the above will shed some light on what's going on.

Josh

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Josh Cooper

Developer, Puppet Labs

[Marco Parra D.]

Hi Josh,
I'm runnig from cmd.exe, I'm using Administrator account on the windows box, this is the output for the command that you asked:

C:\Users\Administrator>whoami /groups

GROUP INFORMATION
-----------------

Group Name                           Type             SID          Attributes
==================================== ================ ============ ===============================================================
Everyone                             Well-known group S-1-1-0      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
BUILTIN\Administrators               Alias            S-1-5-32-544 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group, Group owner
BUILTIN\Users                        Alias            S-1-5-32-545 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE             Well-known group S-1-5-4      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
CONSOLE LOGON                        Well-known group S-1-2-1      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users     Well-known group S-1-5-11     Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\This Organization       Well-known group S-1-5-15     Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
LOCAL                                Well-known group S-1-2-0      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\NTLM Authentication     Well-known group S-1-5-64-10  Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
Mandatory Label\High Mandatory Level Label            S-1-16-12288 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group

C:\Users\Administrator>


I found a page that talks about security on windows 2008, and I tried changing a configuration for the IIS, On the Ineternet Information Services Manager, under Management, Configuration Editor, selecting Providers, click on Edit Items, selecting DataProtectionConfigurationProvider, I change useMachineProtection, and save the change.

On Windows 7 the scripts run perfect, but on Windows 2008 R2 still didn't work, still the execution said that the file was modified, but nothing happens on the file..... no errors it's showed....

Regards

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[Josh Cooper]

Hi Marco,

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Marco Parra D. <marco....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Josh,
I'm runnig from cmd.exe, I'm using Administrator account on the windows box, this is the output for the command that you asked:

C:\Users\Administrator>whoami /groups

GROUP INFORMATION
-----------------

Group Name                           Type             SID          Attributes
==================================== ================ ============ ===============================================================
Everyone                             Well-known group S-1-1-0      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
BUILTIN\Administrators               Alias            S-1-5-32-544 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group, Group owner

This shows that you are running elevated, which is good.

 

BUILTIN\Users                        Alias            S-1-5-32-545 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE             Well-known group S-1-5-4      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
CONSOLE LOGON                        Well-known group S-1-2-1      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users     Well-known group S-1-5-11     Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\This Organization       Well-known group S-1-5-15     Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
LOCAL                                Well-known group S-1-2-0      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\NTLM Authentication     Well-known group S-1-5-64-10  Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
Mandatory Label\High Mandatory Level Label            S-1-16-12288 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group

C:\Users\Administrator>


I found a page that talks about security on windows 2008, and I tried changing a configuration for the IIS, On the Ineternet Information Services Manager, under Management, Configuration Editor, selecting Providers, click on Edit Items, selecting DataProtectionConfigurationProvider, I change useMachineProtection, and save the change.

On Windows 7 the scripts run perfect, but on Windows 2008 R2 still didn't work, still the execution said that the file was modified, but nothing happens on the file..... no errors it's showed....

Is your Windows 7 box 32-bit? If you're using 32-bit ruby on a 64-bit Windows 2008 R2 to edit C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config, Windows may be redirecting you to %windir%\syswow64\inetsrv instead: http://forums.iis.net/p/1150832/1875622.aspx

Josh

[Marco Parra D.]

Hi Josh, thank you for reply,

Yeah, I'm using a Windows 7 32 bits box, and it's works fine... in the other hand, I've testing on Windows 2008 R2 64 bits server, I checked on the path tha you said, and your right, the file is changed on c:\windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config, but IIS uses the file on c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\Config>dir applicationHost.config
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is F4D5-2946

 Directory of C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\Config

03/01/2012  06:01 AM            82,384 applicationHost.config
               1 File(s)         82,384 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   6,910,136,320 bytes free

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\Config>dir c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is F4D5-2946

 Directory of c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config

02/29/2012  11:01 AM            82,122 applicationHost.config
               1 File(s)         82,122 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   6,910,136,320 bytes free


How can I tell ruby that don't uses c:\windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\config path? Is this posible?...

every time that I run puppet agent, only the SysWOW64 path is modified...


C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\Config>puppet  agent --test

notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run
info: Retrieving plugin

info: Caching catalog for cscltest01.office.comscore.com
info: Applying configuration version '1330592671'
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config]/content:
info: FileBucket got a duplicate file {md5}6c1d34bc33754d5303a2a771a0d5483b
info: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config]: Filebucketed C:/Windows/System32/inetsrv/config/applicationHost.config to puppet with sum 6c1d34bc33754d5303a2a771a0d5483b
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config]/content: content changed '{md5}6c1d34bc33754d5303a2a771a0d5483b' to '{md5}fe0a4a948439c3cf4c2c5910fb72fafb'
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.35 seconds

notice: /File[C:/ProgramData/PuppetLabs/puppet/var/state/last_run_summary.yaml]/content:

this isn't works for me, the IIS needs c:\windows\system32 path...


Best Regards

Josh

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Josh Cooper

Developer, Puppet Labs

[Josh Cooper]

Hi Marco,

You can disable file system redirection using the special 'sysnative' alias: C:\Windows\Sysnative\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config. But acccording to MS this is not available on 2003[1], which is odd, because then 32-bit processes in 64-bit 2003 can't disable file system redirection on a per-file basis. There are APIs for disabling file system redirection for the entire process, but that would probably break 32-bit ruby.exe

Perhaps the best option is to create a symlink to the IIS configuration directory[2]. However, 2003 doesn't support symlinks, so again I'm not sure how to do this on 64-bit 2003. Also puppet cannot currently manage symlinks on Windows, so you'd have to use an exec resource to do that.

I'll add a note to our troubleshooting guide about 32vs64bit. I'd be curious to hear about which approach you end up taking. 

Josh

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384187(v=vs.85).aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robert_mcmurray/archive/2008/10/27/using-visual-studio-2008-on-a-64-bit-computer-to-edit-applicationhost-config.aspx

[Marco Parra D.]

Hi Josh, Looking in the web, I found the solution that you mentioned, c:\windows\Sysnative, and works perfect to me! thank you for your help....

C:\Users\Administrator>puppet agent --test

notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run
info: Retrieving plugin
info: Caching catalog for cscltest01.office.com

info: Applying configuration version '1330601351'
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\Sysnative\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config]/content:
info: FileBucket adding {md5}e32032ed7a6f5cce9895058575ff1997
info: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\Sysnative\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config]: Filebucketed C:/Windows/Sysnative/inetsrv/config/applicationHost.config to puppet with sum e32032ed7a6f5cce9895058575ff1997
notice: /Stage[main]/Iisconfig/File[C:\Windows\Sysnative\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config]/content: content changed '{md5}e32032ed7a6f5cce9895058575ff1997' to '{md5}a3680ad2f20f19e8c2593feccd0dc5f6'
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.30 seconds

notice: /File[C:/ProgramData/PuppetLabs/puppet/var/state/last_run_summary.yaml]/content:

Best Regards

[Marco Parra D.]

Hi Josh, by the way, this is the link that I found to solve my trouble, works perfect on Windows 2008 R2 64 bits.

http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/On_64-bit_Windows_versions,_some_files_and_folders_shown_by_Windows_Explorer_are_not_shown_by_Total_Commander!#Affected_files_and_folders

Regards...!

[Josh Cooper]

While working on reboot support, we discovered that there is a hotfix to address this problem on 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942589

 

There are APIs for disabling file system redirection for the entire process, but that would probably break 32-bit ruby.exe

Perhaps the best option is to create a symlink to the IIS configuration directory[2]. However, 2003 doesn't support symlinks, so again I'm not sure how to do this on 64-bit 2003. Also puppet cannot currently manage symlinks on Windows, so you'd have to use an exec resource to do that.

I'll add a note to our troubleshooting guide about 32vs64bit. I'd be curious to hear about which approach you end up taking. 

Josh

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384187(v=vs.85).aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robert_mcmurray/archive/2008/10/27/using-visual-studio-2008-on-a-64-bit-computer-to-edit-applicationhost-config.aspx

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Josh Cooper

Developer, Puppet Labs

Josh