Hi, I am trying to configure Puppet (3.6.2) Dashboard (1.2.23) with HTTP
Basic Authentication. I followed this document's "Security" section:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/configuring.html
Basically, in Dashboard’s vhost configuration, I added those lines:
<Location "/">
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168.240.110 # your puppet master's IP
Satisfy any
AuthName "Puppet Dashboard"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/webaccess
Require valid-user
</Location>
Then I also created a user/password combination:
htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/webaccess myusername
Restart httpd service and Web access to the interface works fine. It
prompts me for username/password.
However, when I ran "puppet agent --test", it failed. Puppet cannot get
nodes from the dashboard.
Questions:
1. I googled and found this issue:
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4890. It points to another two
issues. Should I follow those two issues to fix my problem?
issue #7173 -- Puppet cannot submit reports to dashboard. Modify
puppet/lib/puppet/reports/http.rb to properly parse usernames and passwords
out of the reporturl configuration option.
issue #5126 -- Puppet cannot get nodes from the dashboard. Modify the
external node script to properly parse usernames and passwords out of its
URL
2. In the document, it has a notice
Notice that you need to leave an access exception for your puppet
master. Although it’s possible to configure Puppet to use a password when
connecting to Dashboard (by adding a username and password to Puppet’s
reporturl and the URL used by the external_nodes script), this currently
requires patching Puppet’s http report handler; see issue 7173 for more
details.
I am a little confused here. "you need to leave an access exception for
your puppet master", does this refer to those two lines in the vhost config:
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168.240.110 # your puppet master's IP
If yes, does that mean if I have those two lines to leave an access
exception for puppet master, I don't need to apply those two patches? But
now with those two lines, I still can't get puppet agent to get node from
dashboard. Maybe I should go ahead and apply those two patches?
Thanks a lot!
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