Modified the key to be one generated on VM itself. Removed the 'root@localhost' section at end. Had to modify local VirtualBox settings to port-forward SSH. 1. VBoxManage list vms 2. Select name of VM in question. 3 Execute --> VBoxManage modifyvm "Learning Puppet VM (PE 2.5.1)" --natpf1 "puppettssh,tcp,,2223,,22"
Created first version of break_ssh.pp.
Added package resource to break_ssh.pp manifest.
Created hosts-simple.pp to demo how to use Facter facts and to modify the /etc/motd file.
Created a puppet file called conditional_ntpd.pp to test how to optionally start/stop the ntpd service based on whether or not underlying OS is virtual or not.