[chef] Re: Re: Securing Chef Server

[Matt Horan <matt@matthoran.com>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:06:51PM -0600, Joshua Timberman wrote:
> Did you either:
> 
> 1) Add the 'chef::server' recipe to the run_list on the chef-server node
> or

I had no chef::server recipe in the list, so I copied over the recipes
from /tmp/chef-solo.  I thought I had tried that before and it didn't
work, but it certainly worked this time.  Perhaps the documentation
should be a bit clearer about this?  At first, I thought that simply
creating the template in site-cookbooks was all I needed.

> > 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.

Cool!

Thanks,

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