How to determine puppet environment when using passenger

[Derek Cole]

Hello,
I am trying to figure out what the best way to use puppet when I am using passenger. I noticed that if I log in as my normal user on Ubuntu 12.04, and run "puppet config print" it gives me the incorrect configuration than what I think I am running when I am using apache/passenger/puppet

For example, it shows my confdir as being in my users homedir/.puppet instead of /etc/puppet

When i log in as root, and run the command, everything looks correct. Am I just supposed to work in root all the time when I am running puppet's commands? I noticed this is also a problem when I am having a custom modulepath..if I run puppet install module as a user, it puts it in my home dir, instead of in the configured modulepath i have in my puppet.conf

Please advise -

Thanks!

[Jason Antman]

Derek,

In most circumstances, yes, you should be running puppet commands as
root (via sudo). Running via sudo seems to be the standard, and the best
practice, in Linux environments. You could use some other methods if you
have a... unusual... environment, but running puppet commands as a
normal user will both look in the user's home directory by default, and
won't be able to do most things that puppet normally does, as it will
need root privileges to do things like installing packages and altering
system-wide configuration files. It's been a while since I've looked,
but the puppet documentation (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/) should
cover this.

-jantman

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