[chef] generating a new client key for users

[Michael Hart < >]

I’m running open source chef server, trying to generate a new client key for myself using the chef web UI . After I copy the private key to ~/.chef/mhart.pem, knife complains with:

ERROR: Failed to authenticate to https://chef.cloud.arcticwolf.net as mhart with key /Users/michaelhart/.chef/mhart.pem

Response:  Invalid signature for user or client ‘mhart'

On a whim I copied the original key back (this is after regenerating the key at least five times) and then knife happily works again. It seems to me that the server is generating a new key but not saving the public key anywhere.

I’m running chef server 11.0.12-1.ubuntu.12.04, knife 11.12.2. AFAIK no errors in the logs at all. I’d check https://tickets.opscode.com/ but it appears to be down.

Thoughts?

thanks

mike

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Michael Hart

Arctic Wolf Networks

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