On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:53:35PM +0000, Edd Grant wrote: > Hi all, > > 1: sudo apt-get install puppet, installation completed but I noted the > following warning (is this important?): > *adduser*: *Warning: The home directory* `/*var/lib/* > *puppet*' *does not belong to the user you are currently creating*
This is important because the puppetmaster will normally run as the user puppet. And when you have something like ssldir = $vardir/ssl in your /etc/puppet/pupppet.conf, then puppet cannot create its certificates. You can try the following as user root (or sudo) rm -R /var/lib/puppet mkdir -m 0755 /var/lib/puppet chown puppet:puppet /var/lib/puppet puppet master --no-daemonize --verbose The puppetmaster now can/should create everything necessary in /var/lib/puppet. In another terminal now run puppet agent --server puppet_or_whatever_hostname --test You should now see a certificate request via puppet cert --list -Stefan
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