On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 15:59 -0500, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > > Well I verified that putting the following line in /etc/sudoers works > > > > > > zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD: /var/lib/zabbix/bin/start_puppet > > > > > > However if I put it in /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet it does not. > > Exact same spacing and everything. > > > > > > The file was created with Puppet , and based on these errors I'm at a > > loss... > > > > > > I check the syntax, it fails > > > > > > # visudo -c -f /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet > > >>> /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet: syntax error near line 0 <<< > > parse error in /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet near line 0 > > > > > > I then open the file with visudo, make absoltely no changes, just ":q" > > out, still get error. > > > > > > # visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet > > >>> /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet: syntax error near line 0 <<< > > > > > > Then if I run the syntax check again it passes. However I still can't > > run the command without password prompt. > > > > > > # visudo -c -f /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet > > /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet: parsed OK > > > > > > The files permissions are correct as specified by sudoers > > documentation on #includedir > ---- > probably should ask on the puppet list since using an includedir > function would be far more likely with puppet where most people would > just tack on their edits to /etc/sudoers directly. > > I am sort of interested in your solution by the way (I am on the puppet > list too) because I use puppet but so far, only on Ubuntu and it appears > that our CentOS systems will eventually be phased out. > > by the way, I have seen the same sort of spookiness about syntax errors > created by visudo on Ubuntu 10.04 on perfectly valid edits. Had me > scratching my head too. I used to always just use emacs to edit the file > but at work, I try to play by the conventions. > > Craig > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Craig, I got things working...I posted my module on github if your interested , https://github.com/treydock/puppet-sudo . Was two problems. First was can't have quotations around the #includedir path, second was that puppet wasn't puppeting a new line character in the file when using the "content" approach (see modules note). - Trey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110802/b6e177a8/attachment-0004.html>