On Sep 29, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Nan Liu wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've setup the puppetmaster to start 5 processes each listening on a
>> different port, with an Apache server in front. This works fine for
>> existing clients, however when I try to add a new client (ie. a newly
>> installed machine with no previous puppet configuration) I get this
>> error:
>> 
>> err: Could not request certificate: sslv3 alert handshake failure
>> error
>> 
>> Any ideas what's going wrong?
> 
> Does the new client have a certificate signed by Puppet CA? If not,
> can you manually generate and distribute a certificate with pupet cert
> -g (puppetca in 0.25.5)?
> 
> Is Apache configured for mandatory ssl? The directive is:
> SSLVerifyClient require

Just to clarify, mandatory SSL is bad when using puppet.

> Any logs from Apache?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nan

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