[chef] Re: Nodes do not have permissions to bootstrap other nodes on ec2

[John Dyer < >]

What's the node name of the instance you are bootstrapping?  Does that client 
( node name) already exist on your chef server?

'knife client show your.node.name'

John

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On Jun 9, 2012, at 10:30 AM, David Montgomery 
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 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I  am very serious issue with chef an bootstrapping a node from a
> monitoring server.  The monitoring server was bootstrapped as well.
> In the hosted hosted web UI I have gave permissions to the monitoring
> node for everything yet I get the below error.  This node will handle
> failover.
> 
> I get the below error when bootstrapping.
> 
> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com 15 gems installed
> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:11+00:00]
> INFO: *** Chef 0.10.8 ***
> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:12+00:00]
> INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is not present - registering
> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:12+00:00]
> INFO: HTTP Request Returned 401 Unauthorized: Failed to authenticate
> as validation. Ensure that your node_name and client key are correct.
> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:12+00:00]
> FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:12+00:00]
> FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 401 "Unauthorized"
> 
> Here is my knife file.
> 
> log_level                :info
> log_location             STDOUT
> node_name                "dev_gl"
> client_key               "/etc/chef/client.pem"
> validation_client_name   "validation"
> validation_key           "/etc/chef/validation.pem"
> chef_server_url          "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/testorg";
> cache_type               'BasicFile'
> cache_options( :path => "/home/ubuntu/.chef/checksums" )
> cookbook_path       [ "/home/ubuntu/workspace/MyCHEF/chef-repo/cookbooks" ]
> knife[:aws_access_key_id]     = "xxxxxx"
> knife[:aws_secret_access_key] = "xxxxxxxxxxxx"
> 
> The node has ALL permissions checked.  What else is there to do?
> 
> Thanks