Issue #7244 has been updated by Andrew Forgue.

eric sorenson wrote:
> Escrow the client's private key centrally, deliver it at bootstrap time and 
> not regenerate it upon re-kick

This is exactly what we do now.  We have a sinatra application running on our 
puppet masters that handles the certificate signing, and we have a manual cURL 
step for clients to download their certificates out-of-band, put them in the 
right place, and *then* run puppet.  The reason being, is that we check that a 
host is supposed to be running puppet through various LDAP attributes and 
validate that the host requesting the Private Key is the actual host (through 
various methods, since we have a load balancer in front of the puppet masters).

Having the ability to control the autosign process would allow us, I think, to 
get rid of this extra service and handle this all in band-with puppet so we can 
use the puppet cert commands, etc.

So... +1.
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Feature #7244: Autosign should allow for an external approver
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7244#change-58449

Author: Matt Wise
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: SSL
Target version: Telly
Affected Puppet version: 
Keywords: autosign csr ssl
Branch: 


Puppet should allow for the autosign code to point to an external script, 
instead of the autosign.conf file itself for approval in signing a end-clients 
cert. This method should allow the client to supply a unique bit of "auth" data 
that is passed to the exec script on the master, and validated. If return 0, 
sign the code. If not, do not sign.

In this way, I can pass an arbitrary "token" (say its 12345) through the puppet 
agent to the puppet ca master. The puppet ca master can then run 
"myauthscript.sh -arg 12345". if that script returns 0, puppet c an then sign 
the certificate. If not, puppet fails to sign the certificate.




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