`fingerpuppet` is a simple library and commandline tool to interact with Puppet's REST API without needing to have Puppet itself installed. This may be integrated, for example, into a provisioning tool to allow your provisioning process to remotely sign certificates of newly built systems. Alternatively, you could use it to request known facts about a node from your Puppet Master, or even to request a catalog for a node to, for example, perform acceptance testing against a new version of Puppet before upgrading your production master. Install the binford2k/fingerpuppet puppet module to get a class that can automatically configure your `auth.conf` file under Puppet Enterprise, where that file is managed.