Puppet: How Not To Generate a Certificate with Your Correct Hostname

So, I've been hacking away in my homelab as of late, building out a CentOS kickstart server, a Git server, and a puppet server. Right now, I am working on how to roll my puppet agent installs into my kickstart process. I just started on this, so I have yet to nail it down.

Enycrypting Passwords Via SSL for Redhat Kickstart Configuration Files

Hello again earthlings. The fatmin returns once again to dispense a bit of wisdom. This handy one-liner is a command that for the life of me I cannot remember. Our story begings when building your kickstart config and post-install config files you are going to need to set the password for at least one user … Continue reading Enycrypting Passwords Via SSL for Redhat Kickstart Configuration Files

RHEL6 – Configuring Apache with TLS/SSL Encryption

Don't let the acronyms and the word "Encryption" scare you, its actually very easy to enable TLS/SSL in Apache. So basically it sounds more complicated than it is -- like these last two sentences for example. First you should probably know what TLS and SSL are. Well according to Wikipedia ..."Transport Layer Security (TLS) and … Continue reading RHEL6 – Configuring Apache with TLS/SSL Encryption