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NAME
puppet-cert - Manage certificates and requests

SYNOPSIS
Standalone certificate authority. Capable of generating certificates, but mostly used for
signing certificate requests from puppet clients.

USAGE
puppet cert action [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [-d|--debug] [-v|--verbose] [--digest
digest] [host]

DESCRIPTION
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 out-
standing requests and then either sign them individually or sign all of them.

ACTIONS
Every action except 'list' and 'generate' requires a hostname to act on, unless the
'--all' option is set.

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 cer-
tificate.

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).

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.

verify Verify the named certificate against the local CA certificate.

OPTIONS
Note that any configuration parameter that's valid in the configuration file is also a
valid long argument. For example, 'ssldir' is a valid configuration parameter, so you can
specify '--ssldir directory' as an argument.

See the configuration file documentation at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/sta-
ble/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', 'clean', 'list',
and 'fingerprint' actions.

--digest
Set the digest for fingerprinting (defaults to the 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.

EXAMPLE
$ puppet cert list
culain.madstop.com
$ puppet cert sign culain.madstop.com

AUTHOR
Luke Kanies

Puppet Labs, LLC January 2013 PUPPET-CERT(8)

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