[chef] Re: Re: Re: Cookbooks etc.

[Denis Barishev < >]

On 09/23/2011 06:02 PM, Geoff Meakin Acid wrote:
> > I think that many folks will be interested in an RVM cookbook...
> > Why do you hate running chef-client as root? How will it be possible to 
> > mangle the system configuration when running with dropped privileges? Maybe I 
> > just misunderstand something.
> Ah yes it still needs privileges, so instead of running "$ chef-client", it runs 
> "$ sudo -E chef-client", with chef in sudoers and /sbin paths appropriately set up. I 
> just dont like running anything as root, but that's because I'm paranoid ;)

Haha that's good) But don't try to get very far with that...

> I'll see what I can do about tidying some stuff up and then send it out 
> somehow. I probably wont make the 'cookbook competition', but then I'm a bit 
> of a latecomer to chef :-)