CODEWITHSUNDEEP
svnpuppet
maths
maths

Reputation: 1429

Fetching SVN Repo with Puppet VCSrepo using svn+ssh

So i want to write a module with which I can setup an SVN repo on all the clients which call the master. In order to fetch the repo i have to use svn+ssh. Right now how my module runs is:

+I have setup readonlyuser for SVN repo.
+When puppet runs as sudo on the client it gets the private key for that user from puppet master and puts it in root/.ssh/, so that i can get the repo with svn+ssh on my client with VCSrepo

Is this a good approach? I know its kind of weird that i will be putting the private key for readonlyuser on all the clients which i will be setting up with my module.

Please suggest if i can follow a different approach.

PS
I am not good with puppet and still trying to learn :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 163

Answers (1)

Felix Frank
Felix Frank

Reputation: 8223

I guess the approach is fine for working around your original problem.

To avoid making the svn private key the default identity of the root user, you can

  1. Create an svn-client user with a user resource
  2. Supply the private key to that user and
  3. Make the vcsrepo run svn as that user by supplying the user parameter

Upvotes: 1

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