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<a href="#NAME">NAME</a>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
<a href="#CONFIGURE-SUBCOMMANDS">CONFIGURE SUBCOMMANDS</a>
<a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a>
<a href="#SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a>
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<a href="#CHEF">CHEF</a>
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<li class='tl'>knife-configure(1)</li>
<li class='tc'>Chef Manual</li>
<li class='tr'>knife-configure(1)</li>
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<h2 id="NAME">NAME</h2>
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<code>knife-configure</code> - <span class="man-whatis">Generate configuration files for knife or Chef Client</span>
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<h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<p><strong>knife</strong> <strong>configure</strong> [client] <em>(options)</em></p>
<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p>Generates a knife.rb configuration file interactively. When given the
--initial option, also creates a new administrative user.</p>
<h2 id="CONFIGURE-SUBCOMMANDS">CONFIGURE SUBCOMMANDS</h2>
<p><strong>knife configure</strong> <em>(options)</em></p>
<dl>
<dt><code>-i</code>, <code>--initial</code></dt><dd>Create an initial API Client</dd>
<dt><code>-r</code>, <code>--repository REPO</code></dt><dd>The path to your chef-repo</dd>
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<p>Create a configuration file for knife. This will prompt for values to
enter into the file. Default values are listed in square brackets if no
other entry is typed. See <strong>knife</strong>(1) for a description of
configuration options.</p>
<p><strong>knife configure client</strong> <em>directory</em></p>
<p>Read the <em>knife.rb</em> config file and generate a config file suitable for
use in <em>/etc/chef/client.rb</em> and copy the validation certificate into
the specified <em>directory</em>.</p>
<h2 id="EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>On a freshly installed Chef Server, use <em>knife configure -i</em> to
create an administrator and knife configuration file. Leave the
field blank to accept the default value. On most systems, the
default values are acceptable.</p>
<p>user@host$ knife configure -i<br />
Please enter the chef server URL: [http://localhost:4000]<br />
Please enter a clientname for the new client: [username]<br />
Please enter the existing admin clientname: [chef-webui]<br />
Please enter the location of the existing admin client's private key: [/etc/chef/webui.pem]<br />
Please enter the validation clientname: [chef-validator]<br />
Please enter the location of the validation key: [/etc/chef/validation.pem]<br />
Please enter the path to a chef repository (or leave blank):<br />
Creating initial API user...<br />
Created (or updated) client[username]<br />
Configuration file written to /home/username/.chef/knife.rb</p>
<p>This creates a new administrator client named <em>username</em>, writes
a configuration file to <em>/home/username/.chef/knife.rb</em>, and the
private key to <em>/home/username/.chef/username.pem</em>. The
configuration file and private key may be copied to another system
to facilitate administration of the Chef Server from a remote
system. Depending on the value given for the Chef Server URL, you
may need to modify that setting after copying to a remote host.</p></li>
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<h2 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h2>
<p> <strong>knife</strong>(1) <strong>knife-client</strong>(1)</p>
<h2 id="AUTHOR">AUTHOR</h2>
<p> Chef was written by Adam Jacob <a href="mailto:adam@opscode.com" data-bare-link="true">adam@opscode.com</a> with many contributions from the community.</p>
<h2 id="DOCUMENTATION">DOCUMENTATION</h2>
<p> This manual page was written by Joshua Timberman <a href="mailto:joshua@opscode.com" data-bare-link="true">joshua@opscode.com</a>.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and / or modify this document under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.</p>
<h2 id="CHEF">CHEF</h2>
<p> Knife is distributed with Chef. <a href="http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home" data-bare-link="true">http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home</a></p>
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<li class='tl'>Chef 11.6.0.rc.1</li>
<li class='tc'>July 2013</li>
<li class='tr'>knife-configure(1)</li>
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