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Learning Puppet for Windows Server

Learning Puppet for Windows Server

By : Fuat Ulugay
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Learning Puppet for Windows Server

Learning Puppet for Windows Server

3.8 (4)
By: Fuat Ulugay

Overview of this book

Puppet is a configuration management tool. It allows you to automate all your IT configurations by giving you control of what you do to each “node” (Puppet agent), focusing also on when and how you do it. In context, Puppet is a cross-platform tool that is widely used for Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively. However, it has been used more popularly for Unix-like systems. This book provides insights into using Puppet for Windows administration tasks such as server setup, application updates, and service management. This book kicks off with the fundamentals of Puppet by helping you with the installation of Puppet on a Windows server and progresses with the introduction of the Foreman interface for managing Puppet nodes. Next, you deal with the installation of Puppet agents on multiple clients and how to connect them to your Puppet server by grouping your nodes for easy management. You then become familiarized with the scripting of Puppet manifests along with an understanding of the module structure in Puppet. You further move on to the installation of Puppet Forge Modules and their usage in Windows along with advanced topics such as facts, functions and templates. Moreover, you also venture into the security aspects for Windows by gaining insights into various security settings that will make your server and clients more secure from hackers using different attack vectors. You will also use Puppet and Chocolatey to install and update software. You finally round off by learning how to check the details of reporting and status monitoring along with the automation of installing and updating software for multiple Windows clients arming you with ample artillery to tame Puppet for your future projects.
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Making the local administrator passwords unique


One of the problems of almost all companies is that the local admin passwords for Windows clients are the same for all clients. This implies that if you get one of the client computer's local admin password, you can use it for all the company computers. Further, if you are not using a disc encryption solution, obtaining the hash of the Security Account Manager (SAM) file password is very easy. The worse bit is that Windows enables the use of hash to authenticate, which means that you can directly use the hash to log in to other computers and do not need to crack the hash to get the real password. The solution to this problem is to differentiate the local admin password and make it unique for all your clients. This will ensure that one local admin password/hash is usable only for that computer.

In this section, we will create a localadmin module. The module will create a local user with admin rights for each computer. It will also generate a...

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