[chef] Re: knife user create on chef 12

[Michael Weinberg < >]

Hi Michael (great name, BTW!),

As I learned this week, the knife user commands only worked against the OSS Chef user model. Enterprise/Hosted Chef, and therefore Chef 12 forked the user bits, so those commands won't work. You can use the chef-server-ctl commands on the Chef server to create users, though the behavior feels a little off currently (mostly around assigning/removing orgs and setting admin true/false). 

Good luck!

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Michael F. Weinberg | Director of Operations

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On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Michael Lindsay < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

Never tried to create a user using knife when I was on 11.  Now on 12, seems like it's what's being encouraged.  

When I try: knife user create cumberbatch -u cumberbatch -p fuzbucket -f .ssh/cumberbatch-chef.pem -a

I get: Response: Field 'username' missing

I've even tried adding "username" to the json that is presented when issuing the command.  Doing something wrong?

TIA,

 - Michael