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[chef] Running package install with sudo


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  • From: Tristan Sloughter < >
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  • Subject: [chef] Running package install with sudo
  • Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:37:48 -0600
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I run my chef clients not as root. I want to be able to install an rpm (the RPM does not allow it to be relocated with --prefix, so it must go in /usr). 

I didn't want to but it seems I need to either run the client as root or make my user have sudo access with no password.

I decided to try the user be able to run sudo without a password to install packages. However the 'package' resource does not appear to have a way to tell it to run as a certain user. 

Is this true? Is there a way or am I stuck either running the client as root or using a bash command instead of the 'package' resource?

Thanks,
Tristan

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