[chef] client key

[Nikhil Shah < >]

What am I doing wrong here?

I launched an open source server. Now I am getting ready to configure my client workstation with new keys. I pulled the chef-validator.pem from the server. 

Nikhils-MacBook-Pro:.chef nshah$ knife configure --initial

Overwrite /Users/nshah/chef_orchard/chef-repo_prod/.chef/knife.rb? (Y/N) y

Please enter the chef server URL: [https://cdpbh71.theorchard.local:443] https://nagios01.theorchard.com:443

Please enter a name for the new user: [nshah] nshah

Please enter the existing admin name: [admin] admin

Please enter the location of the existing admin's private key: [/etc/chef-server/admin.pem] /Users/nshah/chef_orchard/chef-repo_prod/.chef/admin.pem

Please enter the validation clientname: [chef-validator] 

Please enter the location of the validation key: [/etc/chef-server/chef-validator.pem] /Users/nshah/chef_orchard/chef-repo_prod/.chef/chef-validator.pem

Please enter the path to a chef repository (or leave blank): 

Creating initial API user...

Please enter a password for the new user: 

ERROR: OpenSSL::PKey::RSAError: private key needed.

Nikhils-MacBook-Pro:.chef nshah$ ls -ahl

total 56

drwxr-xr-x   11 nshah  staff   374B Nov 13 12:07 .

drwxr-xr-x   16 nshah  staff   544B Nov 13 10:33 ..

-rwxr-xr-x    1 nshah  staff   451B Nov 13 11:11 admin.pem

-rw-------    1 nshah  staff   1.6K Nov 13 10:33 admin.pem2

drwxr-xr-x    3 nshah  staff   102B Nov 13 10:26 bootstrap

-rw-------    1 nshah  staff   1.6K Nov 13 10:35 chef-validator.pem

-rw-------    1 nshah  staff   1.6K Nov 13 10:33 chef-validator.pem2

-rw-r--r--    1 nshah  staff   471B Nov 13 12:14 knife.rb

-rw-r--r--    1 nshah  staff   646B Nov 13 11:46 knife.rb2

-rwxr-xr-x    1 nshah  staff   451B Nov 13 11:10 nshah.pem

drwxr-xr-x  456 nshah  staff    15K Nov 13 10:26 syntax_check_cache

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Nikhil Shah / System Administrator

nshah@theorchard.com


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