[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Cannot authenticate knife commands on chef-server 0.8.6 on EC2

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Douglas Hubler 
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> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Adam Jacob 
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>> The padding check failed makes me think the issue is a version
>> mismatch of Mixlib::Authentication - can you confirm that the client
>> and your chef server are at the same revision?
>> Adam
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> I used
>  git clone git://github.com/opscode/chef.git
> so I get server and client from same place.  Is there a version string
> I should be looking at?

He means the mixlib-authentication gem. Run 'gem list' and see what
version is installed on the chef client and the chef server. You may
also need to cleanup old versions if you have multiple versions
installed (see 'gem cleanup').

Bryan