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-rw-r--r--CHANGELOG3
-rwxr-xr-xlib/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 15b41b1b9..51bf853d3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+ The crontab provider now defaults to root when there is no
+ USER set in the environment.
+
Puppetd once again correctly responds to HUP.
Added a syntax for referring to variables defined in
diff --git a/lib/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb b/lib/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb
index bd03c21e3..4770b975a 100755
--- a/lib/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tab = case Facter.value(:operatingsystem)
Puppet::Type.type(:cron).provide(:crontab,
:parent => Puppet::Provider::ParsedFile,
- :default_target => ENV["USER"],
+ :default_target => ENV["USER"] || "root",
:filetype => tab
) do
commands :crontab => "crontab"