[chef] Re: Re: Why need a community cookbook chef-client

[Vladimir Skubriev < >]

On 07.05.2013 17:50, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On May 7, 2013, at 6:21 AM, Vladimir Skubriev 
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> > 3. Why sometimes we need to delete validation.key via for example 
> > chef-client::delete_validation ?
> > I see this in the chef open training presentation at page 141. But don't 
> > understand why it was using there.
> It's a cryptographic key that is only used during the initial registration of 
> a new chef client node.  It is not needed afterwards, and since any node that 
> has this key can use it to register itself to your chef server, this is not 
> something you want to just leave laying around.  It should be deleted as soon 
> as it is no longer needed.
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Okey I understand now. Thank you very much

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Vladmir Skubriev