Issue #4928 has been updated by Nigel Kersten.

Status changed from Needs design decision to Needs more information

Sandor, I'm concerned about this change breaking existing setups for people.

I'd be happy with a major version change introducing this change in behavior, 
because it is better, however I'm concerned about pushing this out without a 
deprecation warning for people.

What about an alternative that tries the secure path first, provides a 
deprecation warning if it fails, and falls back to the insecure path until the 
next major version?

I don't really want to add another parameter to the package provider just for 
this case.
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Feature #4928: SSL cert check for pkgdmg package provider 
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4928

Author: Sandor Szücs
Status: Needs more information
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: OSX
Target version: 
Affected version: 
Keywords: pkgdmg package provider ssl
Branch: 


The curl option -k is used in order to download a source file using the pkgdmg 
package provider. This can be attacked by men-in-the-middle.

In order to defend from mitm you have to validate certs with curl. Puppet has 
:certdir and :localcert configuration that you can use with curl. The patch 
provided fix this issue. I have tested it with a patched 0.25.4 puppet 
installation on Mac OSX 10.6.4. 0.25.x, 2.6.x and development HEAD are effected 
to this, possibly versions <0.25 are effected, too.



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