Fetching SVN Repo with Puppet VCSrepo using svn+ssh

Question

So i want to write a module with which I can setup an SVN repo on all the clients which call the master. In order to fetch the repo i have to use svn+ssh. Right now how my module runs is:

+I have setup readonlyuser for SVN repo.
+When puppet runs as sudo on the client it gets the private key for that user from puppet master and puts it in root/.ssh/, so that i can get the repo with svn+ssh on my client with VCSrepo

Is this a good approach? I know its kind of weird that i will be putting the private key for readonlyuser on all the clients which i will be setting up with my module.

Please suggest if i can follow a different approach.

PS
I am not good with puppet and still trying to learn :)

Answer 1

I guess the approach is fine for working around your original problem .

To avoid making the svn private key the default identity of the root user, you can

1. Create an svn-client user with a user resource
2. Supply the private key to that user and
3. Make the vcsrepo run svn as that user by supplying the user parameter