On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

Not if you've separated your CA from your "config" servers.

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