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wolf4091
wolf4091

Reputation: 35

Why am I getting an authentification ERROR message after "knife cookbook list" in the chef "upload a cookbook tutorial?"

I'm going through chef server training under:

Learn Chef>Tutorials>Manage a node>Red Hat Enterprise Linux>Hosted Chef>Upload a cookbook to Chef server

The tutorial has just had me use "knife cookbook upload learn_chef_httpd" in the terminal but when I "knife cookbook list" instead of verifying like the tutorial shows, it returns:

ERROR: Failed to authenticate to https://api.chef.io/organizations/utopiartstudios as wolf4091 with key /Users/gavindevops/learn-chef/.chef/utopiartstudios-validator.pem
Response:  Invalid signature for user or client 'wolf4091'

I tried nano'ing into the knife.rb file to adjust the client key as it was originally the wrong file name, but it still won't work. I am at a loss. Sorry if this is noobie stuff.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 192

Answers (1)

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54181

It looks like you've mixed the user key and the validator key. In your .chef/knife.rb (or .chef/config.rb, same thing), you have a line like client_key. That should be pointing at your user key, probably something like /Users/gavindevops/learn-chef/.chef/wolf4091.pem or similar. So all together:

client_key '/Users/gavindevops/learn-chef/.chef/wolf4091.pem'

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Upvotes: 1

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