[chef] Re: client key

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Is the admin.pem also the one from the chef server?

Yours
Steffen

On 13/11/13 18:12, Nikhil Shah wrote:
> 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
>