[chef] Re: Securing Chef Server

[Joshua Timberman <joshua@opscode.com>]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Matt Horan<matt@matthoran.com> wrote:
> When I run chef-client on the server, /etc/chef/server.rb does not
> reflect the changes made in the erb file.  Did I miss a step?
> chef-client does not error out, and the server shows up on the status
> page.

Did you either:

1) Add the 'chef::server' recipe to the run_list on the chef-server node
or
b) Create a role and add 'chef::server' to the list of recipes in the
role, and add the role to the node

> On an unrelated note, what does grant admin rights on the registrations
> page do for me?

This grants a client user openid administrative access to the
chef-server so you can use the API, for example from a Ruby script.

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