puppet-cert - Manage certificates and requests
(Deprecated)
Standalone certificate authority. Capable of generating
certificates, but mostly used for signing certificate requests from puppet
clients.
puppet cert action [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [-d|--debug]
[-v|--verbose] [--digest digest] [host]
Because the puppet master service defaults to not signing client
certificate requests, this script is available for signing outstanding
requests. It can be used to list outstanding requests and then either sign
them individually or sign all of them.
Every action except ´list´ and
´generate´ requires a hostname to act on, unless the
´--all´ option is set.
The most important actions for day-to-day use are
´list´ and ´sign´.
- clean
- Revoke a host´s certificate (if applicable) and remove all files
related to that host from puppet cert´s storage. This is useful
when rebuilding hosts, since new certificate signing requests will only be
honored if puppet cert does not have a copy of a signed certificate for
that host. If ´--all´ is specified then all host
certificates, both signed and unsigned, will be removed.
- fingerprint
- Print the DIGEST (defaults to the signing algorithm) fingerprint of a
host´s certificate.
- generate
- Generate a certificate for a named client. A certificate/keypair will be
generated for each client named on the command line.
- list
- List outstanding certificate requests. If ´--all´ is
specified, signed certificates are also listed, prefixed by
´+´, and revoked or invalid certificates are prefixed by
´-´ (the verification outcome is printed in parenthesis). If
´--human-readable´ or ´-H´ is specified,
certificates are formatted in a way to improve human scan-ability. If
´--machine-readable´ or ´-m´ is specified,
output is formatted concisely for consumption by a script.
- print
- Print the full-text version of a host´s certificate.
- revoke
- Revoke the certificate of a client. The certificate can be specified
either by its serial number (given as a hexadecimal number prefixed by
´0x´) or by its hostname. The certificate is revoked by
adding it to the Certificate Revocation List given by the
´cacrl´ configuration option. Note that the puppet master
needs to be restarted after revoking certificates.
- sign
- Sign an outstanding certificate request. If ´--interactive´
or ´-i´ is supplied the user will be prompted to confirm
that they are signing the correct certificate (recommended). If
´--assume-yes´ or ´-y´ is supplied the
interactive prompt will assume the answer of ´yes´.
- verify
- Verify the named certificate against the local CA certificate.
- reinventory
- Build an inventory of the issued certificates. This will destroy the
current inventory file specified by ´cert_inventory´ and
recreate it from the certificates found in the ´certdir´.
Ensure the puppet master is stopped before running this action.
Note that any setting that´s valid in the configuration
file is also a valid long argument. For example, ´ssldir´ is a
valid setting, so you can specify ´--ssldir directory´
as an argument.
See the configuration file documentation at
https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/configuration.html for the full list
of acceptable parameters. A commented list of all configuration options can
also be generated by running puppet cert with
´--genconfig´.
- --all
- Operate on all items. Currently only makes sense with the
´sign´, ´list´, and
´fingerprint´ actions.
- --allow-dns-alt-names
- Sign a certificate request even if it contains one or more alternate DNS
names. If this option isn´t specified, ´puppet cert
sign´ will ignore any requests that contain alternate names.
- In general, ONLY certs intended for a Puppet master server should include
alternate DNS names, since Puppet agent relies on those names for
identifying its rightful server.
- You can make Puppet agent request a certificate with alternate names by
setting ´dns_alt_names´ in puppet.conf or specifying
´--dns_alt_names´ on the command line. The output of
´puppet cert list´ shows any requested alt names for pending
certificate requests.
- --allow-authorization-extensions
- Enable the signing of a request with authorization extensions. Such
requests are sensitive because they can be used to write access rules in
Puppet Server. Currently, this is the only means by which such requests
can be signed.
- --digest
- Set the digest for fingerprinting (defaults to the digest used when
signing the cert). Valid values depends on your openssl and openssl ruby
extension version.
- --debug
- Enable full debugging.
- --help
- Print this help message
- --verbose
- Enable verbosity.
- --version
- Print the puppet version number and exit.
$ puppet cert list
culain.madstop.com
$ puppet cert sign culain.madstop.com
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