[chef] Re: installing admin client key into chef-server

[Ranjib Dey < >]

not directly. the api does not support adding predefined public keys.

which version you are running? If you are using couch you can use the chef apiclient lib to handcraft a apiclient object and invoke cdb_save directly. Note that since couch is normally bound to local interface , you have to run the script in the same instance where couch is running.

I had a requirement to use the same pki system across openvpn, chef and ssh, as part of which i used this strategy. But i dont recommend this, as this wont work on chef 11 (and its dirty way to achieve this).

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:23 PM, andi abes < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

is there a way to provide chef-server (opensource) a client certificate that it should trust as an admin?

Basically, I'm integrating an app that talks to chef-server. I want a simple way to bootstrap an authentication scheme between this app and chef-server, with minimal manual interactions required.