[chef] Re: Re: client key

[Nikhil Shah < >]

Got it working. Anyone ever face this issue when uplaoding existing cookbooks to a new chef server :

cdpbh71:cookbooks nshah$ knife cookbook upload cron

Uploading cron         [1.2.6]

ERROR: The data in your request was invalid

Response: Cannot update sandbox 000000000000df67010fd1dc39d584ec: the following checksums have not been uploaded: 0d0bf28c688fe0d931b7408bf1e7900d, 1501c7d4d78ea731316accb0afb5b19c, 44bcb41c0d259a9e5220dc44299d505f, 6534a3aa337fbfa4cd430a7ab9502090, 683e7fd280fe52a341a517c026570431, 7ce21e8a282e5f93746ceb0e9fe7b0b2, 96dffb159b7932378209dc5025f9d1f2, b78677368e91b9b164bbcc4b59a1ddb7, db04c5f36b29b958644edb2f6f18ef72, e7bbd4e88475d5ff222efad6445a33c2, ef014c10ccc6b49e3ec2391571254d1f

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Steffen Gebert < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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
>

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