- *configuration management*: sync files, packages, services and run commands
on remote hosts
-The goal is that even unexperienced users (with safcm or configuration
+The goal is that even inexperienced users (with safcm or configuration
management in general) should be able to apply configuration with safcm
quickly. This means all key concepts of safcm must be easy to grasp and for
each task there should be one obvious way.
file and execute or source it as a workaround.
- Permissions of existing files and directories will be overwritten with the
- default (root/root, 0644 for files, 0755 for directories) unless manually
- configured via `permissions.yaml`. This includes important paths like
- `/root` which often have strict permissions by default, so carefully check
- the output for unwanted changes.
+ default (root/root or root/wheel, 0644 for files, 0755 for directories)
+ unless manually configured via `permissions.yaml`. This includes important
+ paths like `/root` which often have strict permissions by default, so
+ carefully check the output for unwanted changes.
- The full file content of all files is sent to the remote during
synchronization. This makes it impractical to synchronize large files with