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I am looking into alternatives for the initial cert sign for new puppet clients. We will have non-sysadmins kickstarting new hosts, and I am trying to minimize the time they have to wait for a cert sign while maintaining at least a marginally sane level of security. My question is this: does the puppetmaster check that a new cert request for host A (csr with subject "cn=A.mydomain") is

Hi I have created a module for djbdns [1], which will generate the data file (dns entries) from defines in puppet classes. This is all fine and working. :) However I autogenerated after a few tests the classes for the domains from the current source of our domains. Which are about 50 classes each calling around 3 defines, which will be concatenated_file calls (from davids common module), which

I cannot get this *&^%$ thing to work (on Mac OS X)! http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ticket/718 using cpan2.rb with some very minor modifications. Can anyone confess to having used it successfully or otherwise? The module (and it''s dependencies) I need to install are Net::LDAP I''ve tried these names "G/GB/GBARR/perl-ldap-0.36.tar.gz" "Net::LDAP"

Please forgive me but I am pretty new to Linux. I have Samba set up on a Server and when I go to access it from a windows workstation one, a box pops up with the resourse as \\servername\IPC$ <file://\\servername\IPC$> asking for a password. I have the right domain and my username is the same as my windows password? Why would I be getting these messages? What am I doing wrong?

I want to deploy puppet with openldap for specific node configuration, but only for specific nodes, every other node (not in LDAP) should follow the ''default'' node definition. Is it possible to mix and match like this? As I try it I am getting err: Could not retrieve catalog: Could not find node ''myhostname'' instead. -- Mark Foster - Sr. Systems Engineer