Issue #11431 has been updated by Jo Rhett.

James Turnbull wrote:
> Are you getting an error?  It should be able to read the standard [main] 
> block variables. What is the command you're running?

But applying a vardir change to [main] will affect all other executibles.

We have the client on every box (including the server) have a vardir of 
/var/lib/puppet (stock).  The server runs with a completely different vardir 
for replication/redundancy/backup purposes.  Apparently puppet kick needs 
access to the server's vardir?  (which leads to my previous question about what 
the needs are)
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Bug #11431: puppet kick missing crucial documentation
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11431

Author: Jo Rhett
Status: Needs More Information
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: agent
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.12
Keywords: 
Branch: 


The page at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/kick.html says

> You will most likely have to run 'puppet kick' as root to get access to the 
> SSL certificates.

Please document which certificates that puppet kick uses.  Does it need to read 
the server's CA cert, or the individual hostname certs?  I have found that it 
needs access to the ssldir of the server, not the client from where you are 
running kick.

To avoid having to add --ssldir or --vardir to every puppet kick invocation, it 
would help if we can put this in a section of the puppet.conf file.  Can we do 
something like this?  (my example below doesn't appear to work.

<pre>
[kick]
         vardir = /servers/var/dir
</pre>


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