Re: [Puppet Users] alternate hostnames, keys, and certs

2010-10-16 Thread Patrick
On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Don Jackson wrote: > > A bit of followup here: > > I changed my approach to build a more acceptable certname that would be > acceptable as a hostname, using code like this: > > MACADDR=`facter macaddress_en0 | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | sed 's/://g' ` > MACADDRH

Re: [Puppet Users] alternate hostnames, keys, and certs

2010-10-16 Thread Don Jackson
A bit of followup here: I changed my approach to build a more acceptable certname that would be acceptable as a hostname, using code like this: MACADDR=`facter macaddress_en0 | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | sed 's/://g' ` MACADDRHOSTNAME="macaddr-${MACADDR}" This results in something like this:

Re: [Puppet Users] alternate hostnames, keys, and certs

2010-10-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Don Jackson > wrote: >> >> I'd like to extend my use of puppet to manage my desktop/notebook macs. >> >> As others have noted, the hostname of the mobile machines tends to change >> frequently, so basing t

Re: [Puppet Users] alternate hostnames, keys, and certs

2010-10-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Don Jackson wrote: > > I'd like to extend my use of puppet to manage my desktop/notebook macs. > > As others have noted, the hostname of the mobile machines tends to change > frequently, so basing the node name (in my site.pp) and the corresponding > cert and pr

Re: [Puppet Users] alternate hostnames, keys, and certs

2010-10-14 Thread Patrick
On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Don Jackson wrote: > > I'd like to extend my use of puppet to manage my desktop/notebook macs. > > As others have noted, the hostname of the mobile machines tends to change > frequently, so basing the node name (in my site.pp) and the corresponding > cert and pri