Sandor,

That sounds great. Good luck on your exam and thank you for taking the
time to contribute to puppet. I'm glad you're interested in improving
the pkgdmg provider, I there's anything I an do to help please feel
free to drop me or the list an email.

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On Nov 16, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Sandor Szuecs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jeff!
>
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:56 AM, Jeff McCune wrote:
>
>> I see the need to verify the server certificate, and I think it's clever to 
>> re-use the puppet certificates since it is something the puppet agent has a 
>> trust anchor for and a certificate is already issued.
>>
>> However, with the current documented behavior of the pkgdmg provider, this 
>> patch probably doesn't match the expectation of most people.  If a web 
>> server with a valid certificate signed by Verisign or Thawte or something 
>> hosts the dmg file, then this patch would throw a warning and fall back to 
>> no validation.
>>
>> Would it be possible to add 2 checks, one using the default x.509 anchors,
>> then fall back to trying the puppet certificate, then fall back to insecure?
>
> Yes this should also be possible, thanks for your great input!
> I added it to my local feature list and will do it, but I have to learn
> for my last exam. I think I have the time to do it in a couple of weeks.
>
> All the best, Sandor Szücs
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