Feature #2839

print fingerprint for certificates

Added by Peter Meier over 2 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

Status:Closed Start date:11/19/2009
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:Brice Figureau % Done:

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Category:SSL
Target version:2.6.0
Affected Puppet version:0.25.1 Branch:http://github.com/masterzen/puppet/tree/tickets/master/2395
Keywords:ssl, puppetca, fingerprints
Votes: 1

Description

It should be possible to print the fingerprint of a client certificate, as well puppetca should show fingerprints for signing requests.

Like this you could completely avoid a possible man-in-the-middle from the very beginning on (during certification upload / signing process), as you can easily verify both fingerprints.

Currently you could use @puppetca —print@ on the master to examine the certificate, however I don’t know any easy command for that on the client, nor I was able to find one. And using @puppetca@ on the client somehow doesn’t work.

Hence the idea would be that you do a certificate request on the client, which would upload the cert to the master and print out the Fingerprint. It would also be nice if either @puppetca —print@ would work or if there is something like @puppetd —print-fingerprint@

On the master then puppetca —list should show besides the fqdn the fingerprint of the request. And you could easily compare them.

History

#1
Updated by James Turnbull over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
  • Target version set to 2.6.0

#2
Updated by Brice Figureau over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Accepted to In Topic Branch Pending Review
  • Assignee set to Brice Figureau
  • Branch set to http://github.com/masterzen/puppet/tree/tickets/master/2395

Patch sent to puppet-dev. The code is available along with #2395 in my github repository branch tickets/master/2395: http://github.com/masterzen/puppet/tree/tickets/master/2395

#3
Updated by Todd Zullinger over 2 years ago

FWIW, the spec file in conf/redhat includes puppetca in the client package as of 0.25.1rc1, since it has various uses on clients.

#4
Updated by James Turnbull over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from In Topic Branch Pending Review to Closed

#5
Updated by James Turnbull over 2 years ago

Correct commit is commit:3e9677f00a09d0249713ed2fa503e42b07f6d978 in branch master.

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