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Reputation: 165

Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: Authentication failed

From workstation (Windows) trying to execute

knife ssh 'name:*' 'sudo chef-client'

But it shows error message of

WARNING: Failed to connect to ******** – Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: Authentication failed for user ************

How do I solve this error?

Another question is how to execute 'sudo chef-client' on all nodes from workstation without using any passwords?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6138

Answers (2)

Curtis Stewart
Curtis Stewart

Reputation: 21

If you run knife ssh --help you'll get a list of available options. Try adding -VV for verbose output. That's usually helpful as it should tell you what user knife is trying to connect as.

My guess is you'll have to incorporate one or more of the ssh options (a few listed here):

-x, --ssh-user USERNAME

-i, --identity-file IDENTITY_FILE

-P, --ssh-password [PASSWORD] (will prompt if flag specified but no password is given)

The docs (https://docs.getchef.com/knife_ssh.html) also have some helpful examples

Upvotes: 2

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54211

Your SSH authentication isn't working, fix that. Key-based authentication is something I'm sure you can look up on Google, but in general set your public key in .ssh/authorized_keys and setup your agent on your workstation.

Upvotes: 0

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