Puppet error on running sudo puppet agent -t

Question

On running the command:

 sudo puppet agent -t

I got the following error

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Permission denied - /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp 

I checked all the permissions and all are correctly given. Why i am getting this error?

Answer 1

• The puppetmaster process is the one attempting to access /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp. 

• The correct ownership depends on whether you're running through WEBrick or Apache. 

• Make sure that the puppetmaster user can access the site.pp file. 

• Try changing to the puppetmaster user and make sure you can access the file.

• Also, it could be SELinux causing the access problem, if you're using a RedHat based distro.