[chef] Re: Knife problems

[Joshua Miller < >]

not sure if this is any help


User creation:


 :~$
 sudo knife configure --initial
Your chef server URL? http://srv-101-03.mydomain.com:4000
Your client user name? <adminuser>
Your validation client user name? chef-validator
Path to a chef repository (or leave blank)? 
WARN: Creating initial API user...
INFO: Created (or updated) client[adminuser]
WARN: Configuration file written to /home/adminuser/.chef/knife.rb



Verify user:


 :~$
 knife node list
[
  "srv-101-03.mydomain.com"
]

 :~$
 




Also I had some really odd issues with the validator pem and had to destroy 
the validation user and recreate which I found at: 
http://blog.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/reseting-the-opscode-chef-server-validation-keypem/



On Apr 19, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Ryan Richards wrote:

> Im hoping someone can help me with knife. I have tried to configure it 
> every way possible but i still get the 401 error. I am trying to run it on 
> the server. I've also encountered the same issue with trying to install 
> cookbooks - i assume this is because knife is used to configure the changes 
> on the server. 
> 
> I used 'knife configure' on the server and created a 'client' as myself. 
> Then copied the private key from the admin console along with the 
> validation.pem from /etc/chef. Still no luck. I must be overlooking 
> something very simple perhaps?
> 
> thanks
> Ryan
>