[chef] Re: Validation.pem clarification

[Jeff Blaine < >]

On 2/26/2014 4:08 PM, Anna Redding wrote:
> Please provide clarification as to when you use 
>     chef-validator.pem 
>     versus
>     validation.pem 
> (using chef v11)
> 
> I have clients manually bootstrapped to chef server that are using 
> chef-validator.pem and clients that are bootstrapped using 'knife-vsphere 
> vm clone' process that use validation.pem.
> All are Chef version 11. 
> 
> Why?
> Which one is correct?

Unfortunately, it's just a matter of naming inconsistency. They're 2
names for the same concept: the validation private key. I suspect you
will find that if you compare your on-disk copies of your 2 files they
are the same.