[chef] validation.pem seems to stop working after 24-48 hours.

["Jason J. W. Williams" < >]

I've got a strange issue where my bootstraps start failing after using
the same validation.pem for more than 24-48 hours. The only way to fix
it is to do a "knife client regenerate" to generate a new private key.
Would really like to figure out why validation.pem stops working for
authentication after 24 hours. When I run "openssl rsa -in
validation.pem -pubout" I get the same public key that's listed in the
Chef WebUI for chef-validator. It's not a time sync problem, because
if I run knife with my own client key for my laptop, authentication is
fine, but the minute I do "-k validation.pem" I get 401 Unauthorized.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Regenerating chef-validator every 24
hours is getting old.

-J