On 6/30/2009 1:26 PM, engle wrote:

> So, would it be best to use a single cert for all of the clients or is
> there a better way to deal with this sort of setup?

Run

   puppetca --clean host.to.be.imaged

on the puppetmaster as it's being imaged? If you're doing the reimaging, 
should just be one extra step in your procedure. If you're not the one 
doing the reimaging, can you set up a sudo entry on the puppetmaster to 
allow the other folks to clean old certs? Or set up a simple web form to 
clean a particular cert?

Other than that, I guess another option would be to save the puppet ssl 
directory before the client drive gets reformatted, and restore it back 
to the drive before puppet starts up again.

I'd be wary of using the same certs on multiple systems unless they were 
in an isolated environment (and possibly even then). Same reason as for 
not using the same ssh host key for all your systems.

-- 
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University

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