Thanks Pete, but unfortunately that wont work. The nodes are out of my 
control, and all I can do is to provide their owners client certs via web 
gui. In addition to that, I would need multiple CA's, as the clients (and 
puppetmasters) would be destinated for different owners, and they shouldnt 
share the CA.

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:15:33 AM UTC, Pete wrote:
>
> You might have better luck using something like FreeIPA and using it's ca 
> cert and setting up certs for each node and using those as the puppet certs.
>
> This may help.
> http://jcape.name/2012/01/16/using-the-freeipa-pki-with-puppet/
>
> I had a go at setting it up but I am using FreeIPA 3 and the steps need 
> some changing for that so your mileage may vary.
>
>
> On 20 February 2013 06:15, <spankt...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Dear Felix,
>>
>> I think you're getting it wrong, let me clarify it a bit. The goal of 
>> this is to be able to write web interface for generating puppetmasters CA's 
>> and client certificates on demand. An example: install 3 puppetmasters with 
>> loadbalancer in front. Use web interface to generate CA and certificates 
>> for chosen clients (lets say, 10 machines). Deploy such generated CA's on 
>> puppetmasters, and relevant bits on puppet clients to authorize them 
>> against these puppetmasters. Whenever there's need for change, use that CA 
>> via web interface to add and delete client certificates, redeploy them on 
>> puppetmasters and so on. This, while doable via Subprocess functions 
>> (Python is the language of choice for me, but that doesnt really matters) 
>> and calls to relevant puppet system commands is extremely ugly and not 
>> flexible solution. I would love to do it via openssl library, but to do so, 
>> I'd need to have a workable way to build CA's and sign (and revoke) client 
>> certs via openssl command - so far I cant reach that goal. I hope this 
>> makes more sense now.
>>
>> Regards,
>> S.
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:04:32 PM UTC, Felix.Frank wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/16/2013 12:20 PM, spankt...@gmail.com wrote: 
>>> > after creating CA and client cert and applying them to puppetmaster, 
>>> it 
>>> > complains with: 
>>>
>>> Wait, what? You create a new CA, even after agents have already been 
>>> certified, then create new agent certificates? 
>>>
>>> If your CA changes, you will have to terminate all the (now deprecated) 
>>> agent certificates and sign new certificates for all agents. 
>>>
>>> Basically, I would expect the outcome you are observing, and you should 
>>> just follow the instructions given in your log excerpt. Note that you 
>>> are *not* supposed to remove the CA from the master, only the copy of 
>>> the agent's certificate. 
>>>
>>> HTH, 
>>> Felix 
>>>
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