Contents
- 1 How do you regenerate puppet master certificate?
- 2 Where does puppet master store certificates?
- 3 Could not request certificate the certificate retrieved from the master does not match the agent’s private key Did you forget to run as root?
- 4 How do you sign puppet agent certificate by puppet master?
- 5 What is a Puppet agent?
- 6 What is a puppet agent?
How do you regenerate puppet master certificate?
Step 1: Clear and regenerate certs on your primary Puppet server
- Back up the SSL directory, which is in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/ .
- Stop the agent service:
- Stop the primary server service.
- Delete the SSL directory:
- Regenerate the CA and primary server’s cert:
- Start the primary server service by running:
How do you sign a certificate in puppet?
On the CA server: Sign the certificate request, explicitly allowing alternate names ( puppet cert sign –allow-dns-alt-names ). (Note puppet cert sign is deprecated and will be replaced with puppetserver ca sign in Puppet 6.) On the server: Run puppet agent -t –ca_server to retrieve the cert.
Where does puppet master store certificates?
During the master and agent exchange, the CA is stored in the /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/ca/signed directory on the master and in the /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs directory on the agent.
How do I clean my puppet agent certificate?
How to clean the local certificates in a puppet node
- find /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/ -type f -name “$(hostname –fqdn).pem” -delete.
- sudo rm -fr /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/*
- puppet cert list –all.
- puppet cert clean $fqdn_of_the_node.
Could not request certificate the certificate retrieved from the master does not match the agent’s private key Did you forget to run as root?
err: Could not request certificate: The certificate retrieved from the master does not match the agent’s private key. To fix this, remove the certificate from both the master and the agent and then start a puppet run, which will automatically regenerate a certficate.
Which command will allow a puppet master to display the list of unsigned certificates it has received from puppet agents?
To review the unsigned requests, use the puppet cert list command from the Puppet server: sudo puppet cert list.
How do you sign puppet agent certificate by puppet master?
Puppet – SSL Sign Certificate Setup
- List Current Certificate Requests. On the Puppet master, run the following command to see all unsigned certificate requests.
- Sign a Request.
- Revoking the Host from the Puppet Setup.
- Viewing All Signed Requests.
What does puppet master do?
A puppet master is a person or group that secretly controls other people or things, as if they were puppets.
What is a Puppet agent?
Puppet agent is the application that manages configurations on your nodes. It requires a Puppet primary server to fetch configuration catalogs. For more information about invoking the Puppet agent command, see the puppet agent man page.
How can you revoke certificate of your nodes in puppet?
Use `puppetserver ca` to manage the CA, such as signing certificate requests and revoking certs. Use `puppet ssl` to manage the private key and client certificate for a single node.