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-rw-r--r--lib/puppet/defaults.rb8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/defaults.rb b/lib/puppet/defaults.rb
index 84289768e..139c3c763 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/defaults.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/defaults.rb
@@ -528,10 +528,10 @@ module Puppet
:runinterval => [1800, # 30 minutes
"How often puppet agent applies the client configuration; in seconds."],
:listen => [false, "Whether puppet agent should listen for
- connections. If this is true, then by default only the
- `runner` server is started, which allows remote authorized
- and authenticated nodes to connect and trigger `puppet agent`
- runs."],
+ connections. If this is true, then puppet agent will accept incoming
+ REST API requests, subject to the default ACLs and the ACLs set in
+ the `rest_authconfig` file. Puppet agent can respond usefully to
+ requests on the `run`, `facts`, `certificate`, and `resource` endpoints."],
:ca_server => ["$server", "The server to use for certificate
authority requests. It's a separate server because it cannot
and does not need to horizontally scale."],