On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:41 PM, jcbollinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> The client can provide a $::hostname fact that is different from the
> certname it presents, but that is perfectly valid and expected under some
> circumstances.  It is possible that a client doing so is thereby able to
> exploit weaknesses in (user-provided) manifest files required anyway for its
> catalog, thereby extracting information to which it is not intended to have
> access, but that is possible to some degree or another with any fact.  It
> does not constitute a flaw in Puppet itself, but rather in the manifests in
> question.

That's roughly what I recall.

So, in less words: from a security perspective, do not count on Puppet
only serving the right config for the host. It is a very flimsy
security boundary.

cheers,



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