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

[David Montgomery < >]

This is what I get.


 :/home/ubuntu/.chef#
 knife client show dev_gl
admin:       false
chef_type:   client
json_class:  Chef::ApiClient
name:        dev_gl
public_key:


On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:03 PM, John Dyer 
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 wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from Motorola StarTac
> "Keeping it Klassy"
>
> On Jun 9, 2012, at 10:30 AM, David Montgomery 
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>  wrote:
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>> 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