[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Multiple Chef Servers on Different Ports

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:54 PM, mark bradley 
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 wrote:
> Well, it -was- going pretty well; I got one server up and running from a
> repository and, while getting the second one going, I'm running into
> certificate issues. Which highlights to me that I don't know enough about
> how certificates are generated and consumed in the Chef architecture. Are
> there any good pointers to documentation on this?

What kind of certificates? They're used for client authentication,
which is briefly described here:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/API+Clients

Make sure you set the path to the validation_key to a different value
for each server. This is the special client that can be used to
automate creating new clients. If the file specified by validation_key
does not exist it is recreated, but keep in mind that client keys are
actually stored internally in the database. This file on the server is
mostly a convenient way for you to get a couple of the validation
clients key. See
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Configuration+Settings#ChefConfigurationSettings-certificatesettings

Bryan