On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Derek Yarnell wrote:

> So I was asked a bit about implications of distributing something
> sensitive through puppet.  After a client talks to the puppet server
> (giving its local facts) and retrieves its catalog is the client allowed
> to fetch resources that may not be defined in its catalog?
> 
> For example if someone is crafty and has compromised a client can they
> retrieve a file from the file server that was not in their catalog?  Or
> can this only be secured this only handled by the file server IP acls
> (if you really call that secure)?


Just to confirm that.  Any client with a valid certificate can get any file in 
any "files" directory unless you make changes.  Templates are different because 
the templates are put into the catalog, so a client can only use templates you 
use in the catalog.

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