[chef] Re: Chef Open Source Sever 12 RC

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:09 PM, David Lloyd 
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 wrote:

> I download the RPM for Enterprise Linux
> (chef-server-core-12.0.0_rc.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm) and installed it as per the
> instructions:
>
> yum localinstall _the_rpm
> chef-server-ctl reconfigure
> chef-server install opscode-manage
> opscode-manage-ctl reconfigure
> chef-server install reconfigure
>
> The server comes up nicely but I can’t seem to guess what the default
> username and admin is or if there is actually one created.

There is not actually one created. As you installed the web UI
(opscode-manage), you can create one by loading it in your browser and
creating a new organization and a user.

Or, you can create one at the command line on the server; this is how
you would do it without the UI.

$ sudo chef-server-ctl org-create chef 'Chef'  # takes short name,
descriptive name of the org -- spits out an RSA private key which is
the validation key for the org
$ sudo chef-server-ctl user-create admin Julian Dunn 

 
abc123 # takes username, first/last name, email, password -- spits out
a user's RSA key
$ sudo chef-server-ctl org-associate chef admin  # associates the
'admin' user with the 'chef' organization

> chef-server-ctl status shows everything’s running but something with ‘move’
> in the service name (opscode-move I think)

The display of opscode-mover (a onetime service used for migrations
from CouchDB) as being "down" is expected. That output will be
suppressed in a future release of Chef Server 12.

+ James Scott as I heard from other folks at summit that the creation
procedure was confusing.

- Julian