2009/5/1 Christian Horn <[email protected]> > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:15:16PM +0200, Fabien Dupont wrote: > > > > Wouldn't it be possible to have Cobbler manage Puppet's host certificates > > the way it manages DHCP and DNS. > > Nice idea! > > > As far as the Puppet instance is on the > > same server it wouldn't be difficult to call puppetca and we could think > of > > downloading certificates from Cobbler SVC during installation time > through a > > snippet. > > I wouldnt want the cert including the needed private key beeing trans- > ferred over the net in the clear.
Just need to use HTTPS rather than HTTP for these files. It should be just a few lines in /etc/httpd/conf.d/cobbler_svc.conf. With a clean certificate (not selfsigned) for Apache this might be quite safe. > Letting cobbler doing the signing of the cert (with accompanying > private key beeing only on the newly deployed box) sounds fine thou. > > A bit better than autosigning since cobbler will only sign the > certs of cobbler-deployed boxen and not some rogue new box on the > network. > > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
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