knife-configure(1) -- Generate configuration files for knife or Chef Client
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## SYNOPSIS

__knife__ __configure__ [client] _(options)_

## DESCRIPTION
Generates a knife.rb configuration file interactively. When given the
--initial option, also creates a new administrative user.

## CONFIGURE SUBCOMMANDS ##

__knife configure__ _(options)_

  * `-i`, `--initial`:
    Create an initial API Client
  * `-r`, `--repository REPO`:
    The path to your chef-repo

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 __knife__(1) for a description of
configuration options.

__knife configure client__ _directory_

Read the _knife.rb_ config file and generate a config file suitable for
use in _/etc/chef/client.rb_ and copy the validation certificate into
the specified _directory_.

## EXAMPLES
  * On a freshly installed Chef Server, use _knife configure -i_ 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 (except for the chef server URL,
    there you must add your organization name)

    user@host$ knife configure -i
    Please enter the chef server URL: [http://localhost/organizations/myorg]
    Please enter a clientname for the new client: [username]
    Please enter the existing admin clientname: [chef-webui]
    Please enter the location of the existing admin client's private key: [/etc/chef/webui.pem]
    Please enter the validation clientname: [chef-validator]
    Please enter the location of the validation key: [/etc/chef/validation.pem]
    Please enter the path to a chef repository (or leave blank):
    Creating initial API user...
    Created (or updated) client[username]
    Configuration file written to /home/username/.chef/knife.rb

    This creates a new administrator client named _username_, writes
    a configuration file to _/home/username/.chef/knife.rb_, and the
    private key to _/home/username/.chef/username.pem_. 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.

## SEE ALSO
   __knife__(1) __knife-client__(1)

## AUTHOR
   Chef was written by Adam Jacob <adam@opscode.com> with many contributions from the community.

## DOCUMENTATION
   This manual page was written by Joshua Timberman <joshua@opscode.com>.
   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and / or modify this document under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.

## CHEF
   Knife is distributed with Chef. <http://docs.chef.io>