[Puppet Users] Re: The security of serving files?

2009-08-09 Thread Greg
One thing to add to this - if you have set autosign.conf to autosign anything then it is possible for a remote client to get a certificate remotely then retrieve files... Of course this will take a few requests, but its possible... Greg On Aug 10, 7:47 am, James Turnbull wrote: > -BEGIN PGP

[Puppet Users] Re: Solaris SMF services and their dependencies...

2009-08-09 Thread Greg
Matt, That worked fine - thanks for that... (Finally managed to actually test it this morning...) So long as it always takes less than 5 seconds to restart, this looks like it will work nicely... thanks, Greg On Jul 24, 10:03 pm, Matthew Hyclak wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Greg

[Puppet Users] Re: Managing intermittently available resources...

2009-08-09 Thread Matt McLeod
2009/8/10 Daniel Pittman : > My best guess, right now, is that I need to write a function, or a fact, that > determines if we are the active or passive machine for a specific service[1], > and then only configure those features when we are active. I'd probably write a set of facts, one for each H

[Puppet Users] Managing intermittently available resources...

2009-08-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. I have a problem that I don't know the best way to mesh with Puppet. Specifically, we have a database active/passive fail-over cluster. Access to the database is *only* possible on the active machine, not on the passive machine. I would like to manage various database resources, includi

[Puppet Users] Solaris /etc/user_attr file - anyone ever tried to manage this?

2009-08-09 Thread Greg
Hi all, Am starting to look at managing some of the extended Solaris authorisations starting with /etc/user_attr. Has anyone looked at this before? File is similar in format to a passwd file. Heres a couple of examples from a default file: admprofiles=Log Management lpprofiles=Printer M

[Puppet Users] Re: Managing about 30 users?

2009-08-09 Thread Michael v s
ssah_authorized_keys bug is fixed on 0.25rc1 http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2487 Cheers On Aug 4, 4:36 pm, Mike Harding wrote: > I have about 30 dev. and operation users on my machines, is there a > recipe anywhere for doing this? The best practices doc on the wiki is > incomplete an

[Puppet Users] Re: The security of serving files?

2009-08-09 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Strange wrote: > Hi, > > This might be a silly question but if I have a fileserver configured like > this: > > [files] > path = /etc/puppet/files > allow * > > Does that mean: > > 1. Anybody in the world (who can reach my puppet master)

[Puppet Users] The security of serving files?

2009-08-09 Thread Simon Strange
Hi, This might be a silly question but if I have a fileserver configured like this: [files] path = /etc/puppet/files allow * Does that mean: 1. Anybody in the world (who can reach my puppet master) can view/pull files? 2. Only the clients who've been signed via the "puppetca --sign" proc

[Puppet Users] Example of a site module?

2009-08-09 Thread Julian Simpson
Hi there, I setup my Puppet manifests before modules really took off. Recently I read the best practice info (nice work!) and saw that a convention has emerged with the 'site' module. Great. I'm delighted to keep all my secrets in there and open up any other modules I might write. But before