Chef PEM file invalid or mis-named?
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Solution 1
From the Administration tab in chef name-validator.pem is generated from Organization level, while name.pem is generated from the User level. You may not have generated the user level pem yet.
Solution 2
This is the issue with client key. I also faced this issue. I regenerated the key for user and added to {user}.pem file and it worked for me.
Author by
DirtyMikeAndTheBoys
Updated on June 13, 2022Comments
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DirtyMikeAndTheBoys over 1 year
My sytem username is
myuser
but I'm trying to bootstrap machines with achef-validator.pem
and then ablah.pem
file, and getting the following error message:ERROR: Failed to authenticate to https://mychef01 as blah with key /etc/chef/blah.pem. Response: Invalid signature for user or client 'blah'
Does this mean that the
blah.pem
file is invalid, or does it mean that it needs to match my system username (so,myuser.pem
)? Either way, what is the root problem and what is the fix? -
StephenKing over 7 yearsI think regenerating the validation key is not the best advice for this question (the error message should differ). Be aware that regenerating the validation key invalidates the previous one.
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user1321759 over 7 yearsWell. I got the same message error and what I wrote solve my problem.
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Travis Bear almost 6 years"I regenerated the key" -- you could really improve this answer by providing syntax here.