[chef] RE: Re: Chef 12 validation keys - where are the public keys?

["Fouts, Chris" < >]

Yes my bad! I was under the impression that I needed the "public" key instead 
of the "private" key in my ~/.chef directory, but I know otherwise now. 
Thanks!

Chris

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From: Noah Kantrowitz 
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Subject: [chef] Re: Chef 12 validation keys - where are the public keys?


On Dec 2, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Fouts, Chris 
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 wrote:

> https://docs.getchef.com/upgrade_server_open_source_notes.html
>  
> The above article talks about validation keys for Chef 12, but it doesn't 
> tell one "where" the "public" validation key for the organization is. Am I 
> missing something?

Do you mean the public half of the key pair? It lives in the database next to 
all the other clients. the only thing that makes it special really is its 
permissions which are initialized when the org is created.

--Noah