[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Validation keys at Chef server

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, August 4, 2014 at 2:40 PM, DV wrote:
> Well,our Chef server was set up using standard Chef rpm and it comes with 
> validator and webui keys stored in /etc/chef-server, how about that?
>  
> > rpm -qa|grep chef
> chef-server-11.0.11-1.el6.x86_64
>  
>  
> > ll /etc/chef-server/
> total 28
> -rw------- 1 root root 1679 Apr 3 14:22 admin.pem
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42 Apr 5 18:10 chef-server.rb
> -rw------- 1 chef_server root 7773 Apr 5 18:22 chef-server-running.json
> -rw------- 1 root root 765 Apr 11 14:11 chef-server-secrets.json
> -rw------- 1 root root 1679 Apr 3 14:22 chef-validator.pem
> -rw-r----- 1 root chef_server 1679 Apr 3 14:22 chef-webui.pem


These keys are created by the bootstrap process, because otherwise there 
wouldn’t be any accounts on the system at all. The only one that is actually 
used by anything is the webui key.

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Daniel DeLeo