Issue #4948 has been updated by Brice Figureau.

Jeff McCune wrote:
> Unfortunately these error messages come from the openssl ruby layer itself 
> rather than puppet and it's extremely difficult for puppet to determine _why_ 
> a certificate verification check failed in the openssl layer.

I don't think it's right. You can define a verify_callback on any ssl context 
(and this can be done with Net::HTTPS too). This proc will be called after 
validation is done and you can ask the context for more information about the 
error.

The question is: isn't it an information disclosure to let the client know his 
cert has been revoked?
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Bug #4948: connecting from a client whose cert is revoked fails without 
indicating why
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4948

Author: eric sorenson
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: SSL
Target version: Statler
Affected version: 0.25.0
Keywords: 
Branch: 


had a confusing time tonight trying to debug some systems which were failing 
puppetd -tv -- the error output looked like:

<pre>

[r...@it11p00me-acctsvc001 /var/lib/puppet]# puppetd -tv
info: Retrieving plugin
err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional resources using 
'eval_generate': certificate verify failed
err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: 
certificate verify failed Could not retrieve file metadata for
 puppet://puppet/plugins: certificate verify failed
info: Loading facts in locallinks
info: Loading facts in locallinks
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: certificate verify failed
warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
</pre>

The cause was that the cert's serial number was in the CRL downloaded from the 
CA - probably due to a misunderstanding on my part of how exactly to issue new 
certificates to hosts whose private keys are lost due to re-imaging.  

But regardless it would be nice to emit some kind of informative error message 
if we find out the local certificate is in the CA's CRL. 


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