Puppet Community

```$ pkgutil --pkg-info com.puppetlabs.pe-client-tools
package-id: com.puppetlabs.pe-client-tools
version: 21.1.0
volume: /
location:
install-time: 1674918131```


```$ brew info pe-client-tools
==&gt; pe-client-tools: 21.1.0
<https://puppet.com/docs/pe/latest/installing_pe_client_tools.html>
/usr/local/Caskroom/pe-client-tools/21.1.0 (36.5MB)
From: <https://github.com/puppetlabs/homebrew-puppet/blob/HEAD/Casks/pe-client-tools.rb>
==&gt; Name
PE Client Tools
==&gt; Description
None
==&gt; Artifacts
pe-client-tools-21.1.0-1-installer.pkg (Pkg)```

I haven’t checked to see if this bug exists on linux version (or any other pe-client-tools package for *nix)

I'm not sure if  /etc/puppetlabs/client-tools/puppet-access.conf is read when you run it as non-root. usually only root reads in /etc and for normal users your need to add the config in your home dir

well, it reads it, because it’s creating the token file in the place specified, just literally, without bash tilde expansion.

Docs suggest either global or personal conf file should work: <https://www.puppet.com/docs/pe/2021.7/rbac_token_auth_intro.html?#global-conofiguration-file>

Looks like the default for token-file is ~/.puppetlabs/token.  I should try removing `"token-file": "~/.puppetlabs/token",`  and observe where the token is created.

Confirmed.  If i remove the above from /etc/puppetlabs/client-tools/puppet-access.conf, it creates the token as /Users/&lt;username&gt;/.puppetlabs/token