Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Disabling Certificates

2010-11-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Derek J. Balling wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2010, at 6:26 PM, donavan wrote: >> From your comment in #3958 I think autosign[1] with "*.domain.tld" >> would work for you. > > Nope. Because "autosign" doesn't also "auto-overwrite". Actually it has meant that in some ver

[Puppet Users] Re: Disabling Certificates

2010-11-12 Thread binaryred
Derek, I agree with you that the certificates are unnecessary for some people, myself included. Since we're behind a large corporate firewall, we don't need this type of security for in house management. As we upgrade our engineers workstations, the new workstation almost always has the same nam

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Disabling Certificates

2010-11-12 Thread James Turnbull
Derek J. Balling wrote: > It's just ugly. Like I said in my ticket notes, I'll concede that for > some people, it's a necessity, but there's clearly also a set of > people for whom it is just unnecessary pain and suffering. > It's been my experience that SSL (or the requirement for some form of t

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Disabling Certificates

2010-11-12 Thread Thomas Bendler
Hi Derek, 2010/11/12 Derek J. Balling > [...] > Nope. Because "autosign" doesn't also "auto-overwrite". > > - New Host "foo001.domain.tld" is created > - Certs are exchanged for foo001 with the puppetmaster, life is good, > autosigned > - Host foo001.domain.tld is retired > - Replacement Host "f

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Disabling Certificates

2010-11-11 Thread Derek J. Balling
On Nov 11, 2010, at 6:26 PM, donavan wrote: > From your comment in #3958 I think autosign[1] with "*.domain.tld" > would work for you. Nope. Because "autosign" doesn't also "auto-overwrite". - New Host "foo001.domain.tld" is created - Certs are exchanged for foo001 with the puppetmaster, life is

[Puppet Users] Re: Disabling Certificates

2010-11-11 Thread donavan
On Nov 10, 7:42 pm, Derek J. Balling wrote: > Has anyone had any luck in actually disabling certificates entirely. Just > trust the hostname you get from DNS and treat that info as authoritative. > > I'm in the Puppet BoF @ LISA, and (essentially) was told that's never going > to happen, even th