Puppet module path is not updating

Question

I have a puppet agent which is an ubuntu server on Aws. I added a module path entry to the /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf file. inorder to resolve a :"class not found error".

modulepath=/home/ubuntu/repos/puppet-tests/modules

However, if I run the following command, I am told that the module path(s) haven't changed.

puppet apply --configprint modulepath

I have tried placing the modulepath setting in both the [main] and [agent] sections.what am i missing?

Answer 1

The puppet confdir depends on user that executes puppet command. That's why puppet cofiguration will differ for different users.

Execute puppet as a root, or modify puppet config for non root user in ~/.puppetdirectory.

This should do!