[chef] using knife.rb attributes in a recipe

["O. T. Suarez" < >]

Hi,

Attributes stored in the knife.rb file (like the AWS Cloud
Credentials), on the chef workstation, can be used while bootstraping
a node.
Does anyone knows how to use knife.rb attributes in a recipe?
Is that even possible?

this whole thing came up while trying to find a way to make the
encrypted databag secret key available to the recipes using something
like chef::config properties (chef::config['knife'] actually, but I
couldn't make it work), to avoid having to scp the key file or keeping
it on the chef client host (security considerations are not an issue,
just the technical challenge of whether or not this can be done ;).

Regards,
Osvaldo