Puppet configuration: user

[Axel Bock]

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.

[Andrew Hendry]

Hi,

user= is for the puppetmaster user which does not need to run as root.

Regards,
Andrew

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