Man Page: puppet ssl

puppet-ssl - Manage SSL keys and certificates for puppet SSL clients

Manage SSL keys and certificates for SSL clients needing to communicate with a puppet infrastructure.

puppet ssl action [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [-d|--debug] [--localca] [--target CERTNAME]

• --help: Print this help message.

• --verbose: Print extra information.

• --debug: Enable full debugging.

• --localca Also clean the local CA certificate and CRL.

• --target CERTNAME Clean the specified device certificate instead of this host's certificate.

bootstrap

Perform all of the steps necessary to request and download a client certificate. If autosigning is disabled, then puppet will wait every waitforcert seconds for its certificate to be signed. To only attempt once and never wait, specify a time of 0. Since waitforcert is a Puppet setting, it can be specified as a time interval, such as 30s, 5m, 1h.

generate_request

Generate a certificate signing request (CSR). If a private and public key pair exists, the key pair will be used to generate the CSR. Otherwise, a new key pair will be generated.

submit_request

Generate a certificate signing request (CSR) and submit it to the CA. If a private and public key pair already exist, they will be used to generate the CSR. Otherwise a new key pair will be generated. If a CSR has already been submitted with the given certname, then the operation will fail.

download_cert

Download a certificate for this host. If the current private key matches the downloaded certificate, then the certificate will be saved and used for subsequent requests. If there is already an existing certificate, it will be overwritten.

verify

Verify the private key and certificate are present and match, verify the certificate is issued by a trusted CA, and check revocation status.

clean

Remove the private key and certificate related files for this host. If --localca is specified, then also remove this host's local copy of the CA certificate(s) and CRL bundle. if --target CERTNAME is specified, then remove the files for the specified device on this host instead of this host.

show

Print the full-text version of this host's certificate.