[chef] Re: Re: knife bootstrap not finding validation.pem

[Jeff Storey < >]

That seems to work, but in the client key file I have ~/.chef/myuser.pem. I wonder why it would work in one case but not the other.

On 10/29/2012 11:38 AM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

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"#{ENV['HOME']}/.chef/validation.pem"


i guess ~ is only understood by shell, not by ruby

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:44 PM, < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm trying to use knife to bootstrap a client, and in my knife.rb file, the
validation.pem path is listed as ~/.chef/validation.pem, When I run the
bootstrap process, I get a message indicating that validation.pem cannot be
found.

I did find though if I put a full path to the file, such as
/home/myuser/.chef/validation.pem, it does work. Is the ~/.chef path
interpreted as relative to the ssh user (the user running the knife bootstrap
is different than the ssh username). I wouldn't think so, but I'm not sure.

Any reason why this wouldn't work?