[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Can i authenticate myself as an admin using the RESTful API (in java code)?

[Arjuna Christensen < >]

Hello,

On 20/10/2009, at 5:08 PM, Dikang Gu wrote:

Hi Arjuna,

Thank you for your information!

Yes, I have converted the ruby authenticate code to java, and used the cookie in subsequent calls to Chef Server, but I still have the 401 error. I attach some of the debug log, could you help me to talk a look at it, please?

Thanks

Dikang

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Can you please post the chef-server logs in debug mode (-l debug or log_level :debug in server.rb) showing the auth/authz failure :)

The default location is /var/log/chef/server.log

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Arjuna Christensen < "> > wrote:

Hi,

On 20/10/2009, at 4:37 PM, Dikang Gu wrote:

please refer to my mail: "A problem when implementing the java client of chef".

As per the Knife snippet, Chef::Rest#authenticate is called - http://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/rest.rb#L65-76

    def authenticate(user, pass)

      Chef::Log.debug("Authenticating #{user} via openid") 
      response = post_rest('openid/consumer/start', { 

        "openid_identifier" => "#{Chef::Config[:openid_url]}/openid/server/node/#{user}",
        "submit" => "Verify"
      })
      post_rest(
        "#{Chef::Config[:openid_url]}#{response["action"]}",
        { "password" => pass }
      )
    end

Shouldn't be too hard to port that over to Java. You'll need to persist and use the cookie in subsequent authentication-required calls to the Chef Server [handled internally by Chef::Rest for the ruby client].

HTH!

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Dikang Gu < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Thank you Adam!

And after the authentication, will I get any information (like some tokens), that I will use in the http call?  To tell the chef-server that I have been authenticated?

Thanks 

Dikang

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Adam Jacob < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Sure - you need to just create a new client credential, and then set
it to be an administrator.

See the 'register' and 'authenticate' methods here:

http://gist.github.com/100837

Adam

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Dikang Gu < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
> As per subject. So that I can do the operations just like users on the web
> UI?
> Thanks
> Dikang

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