Hey, sorry, I kinda posted this in a hurry since I've been taking a ton of 
calls during, sorry about that. This error is occurring with every single 
agent apparently, including the agent on the master machine.

On Monday, May 5, 2014 10:07:31 AM UTC-4, Felix.Frank wrote:
>
> Hi, 
>
> first off, because your post is really, really confusing: Is this the 
> agent running on the master machine? Or are other agents afflicted as 
> well? 
>
> On 05/05/2014 04:04 PM, Dan Pasacrita wrote: 
> > So for whatever reason I've been seeing this error. I'll usually see it 
> > when doing puppet commands like "puppet agent -t" or "puppet cert clean 
> > [Agent Hostname]". 
> > 
> > Error: Could not request certificate: The certificate retrieved from the 
> > master does not match the agent's private key. 
> > Certificate fingerprint: 
> > 
> 7D:79:1E:C9:61:0B:96:18:DE:FE:9A:82:99:69:83:63:76:66:BA:5E:C7:8E:5F:BF:C5:37:4D:C1:07:36:4A:29
>  
>
> > To fix this, remove the certificate from both the master and the agent 
> > and then start a puppet run, which will automatically regenerate a 
> > certficate. 
> > On the master: 
> >   puppet cert clean [Master Hostname] 
> > On the agent: 
> >   rm -f /home/dpasacrita/.puppet/ssl/certs/[Master Hostname].pem 
> >   puppet agent -t 
> > 
> > Okay so I notice here that it tells me how to fix the issue, it normally 
> > wouldn't be that big an issue I bet. But here, as you can see, the 
> > Master's certificate doesn't match its own private key. I'm not sure 
> > what caused this, but I think it might have been me stupidly changing 
> > the mode of the Master's home folder to 777. I don't even remember why I 
> > did that, but I've since fixed that. I don't really know how to proceed 
> > here though, since I can't run puppet cert clean [Master Hostname] 
> > without getting this error, and I'm worried about removing the file it 
> > tells me to because I know I can't run puppet agent -t on the master 
> > right now and I'm worried I'll be worse off if I mess with it. What can 
> > I do here? 
>

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