directory module doesn't -p about marionette HOT 5 CLOSED

This one works for me:

$ cat > dir.in
directory { name => "Create Datadir",
target => "/opt/deep/down",
mode => "0755",
}

I run it, with sudo, because I need permission to write beneath /opt:

$ sudo ./marionette dir.in 
[sudo] password for skx: 

Then the directory exists:

$ ls /opt/deep/down/
$

Do you see any output of note when you run with -debug, or -verbose? I checked the code and we use os.MkdirAll rather than os.Mkdir so I'd expect it to be doing the right thing.

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I added a test-case to explicitly check that this works as expected, which confirmed my manual testing.

I think more details are needed here, because I can't reproduce the problem at all.

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Yeah if you run marionette as "yourself" then you can use sudo for shell-commands, but things like files, directories and docker containers will all fail if they don't have the appropriate permissions.

Usually that should be obvious, as the error-message will look something like this:

$ ./marionette dir.in
Error:error running directory-module rule 'Create Datadir' mkdir /opt/down: permission denied

But I guess it is easy to miss if your input-files are long.

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Could never reproduce this, closing on that basis.

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