I’d expect the installer to specifically mention “certificate” and assume I do not know what a certificate is. In this way, I’d expect the installer to explain how it determined the value it automatically supplies as the suggested default. Finally, I’d expect a brief explanation of how Puppet uses this value for authentication and authorization.

That’s… a LOT to ask, without turning the installer into a wall of text. I am for-real struggling with this, and do not believe I can give you all of it without sacrificing usability. I’ll try.

To speak the unspoken requirement I’m trying to balance this with: You should be able to tell what question you’re looking at without reading the whole thing. I think that stops being possible at about 20 words.

This seems a lot less important in retrospect. Maybe:

I can’t come up with a good way to cram all this info in.

Maybe we just close this and keep an eye out for confusion around this question?

-Jeff