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The Following subcommands are available:</p> + +<h2 id="BULK-DELETE">BULK DELETE</h2> + +<p><strong>knife client bulk delete</strong> <em>regex</em> <em>(options)</em></p> + +<p>Delete clients where the client name matches the regular expression +<em>regex</em> on the Chef Server. The regular expression should be given as a +quoted string, and not surrounded by forward slashes.</p> + +<h2 id="CREATE">CREATE</h2> + +<p><strong>knife client create</strong> <em>client name</em> <em>(options)</em></p> + +<dl> +<dt><code>-a</code>, <code>--admin </code></dt><dd>Create the client as an admin</dd> +<dt><code>-f</code>, <code>--file FILE</code></dt><dd>Write the key to a file</dd> +</dl> + + +<p>Create a new client. This generates an RSA keypair. The private key will +be displayed on <em>STDOUT</em> or written to the named file. The public half +will be stored on the Server. For <em>chef-client</em> systems, the private key +should be copied to the system as <code>/etc/chef/client.pem</code>.</p> + +<p>Admin clients should be created for users that will use <em>knife</em> to +access the API as an administrator. The private key will generally be +copied to <code>~/.chef/client\_name.pem</code> and referenced in the <code>knife.rb</code> +configuration file.</p> + +<h2 id="DELETE">DELETE</h2> + +<p><strong>knife client delete</strong> <em>client name</em> <em>(options)</em></p> + +<p>Deletes a registered client.</p> + +<h2 id="EDIT">EDIT</h2> + +<p><strong>client edit</strong> <em>client name</em> <em>(options)</em></p> + +<p>Edit a registered client.</p> + +<h2 id="LIST">LIST</h2> + +<p><strong>client list</strong> <em>(options)</em></p> + +<dl> +<dt><code>-w</code>, <code>--with-uri</code></dt><dd> Show corresponding URIs</dd> +</dl> + + +<p>List all registered clients.</p> + +<h2 id="REREGISTER">REREGISTER</h2> + +<p><strong>client reregister</strong> <em>client name</em> <em>(options)</em></p> + +<dl> +<dt><code>-f</code>, <code>--file FILE</code></dt><dd>Write the key to a file</dd> +</dl> + + +<p>Regenerate the RSA keypair for a client. The public half will be stored +on the server and the private key displayed on <em>STDOUT</em> or written to +the named file. This operation will invalidate the previous keypair used +by the client, preventing it from authenticating with the Chef Server. +Use care when reregistering the validator client.</p> + +<h2 id="SHOW">SHOW</h2> + +<p><strong>client show</strong> <em>client name</em> <em>(options)</em></p> + +<dl> +<dt><code>-a</code>, <code>--attribute ATTR</code></dt><dd>Show only one attribute</dd> +</dl> + + +<p>Show a client. Output format is determined by the --format option.</p> + +<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2> + +<p>Clients are identities used for communication with the Chef Server API, +roughly equivalent to user accounts on the Chef Server, except that +clients only communicate with the Chef Server API and are authenticated +via request signatures.</p> + +<p>In the typical case, there will be one client object on the server for +each node, and the corresponding client and node will have identical +names.</p> + +<p>In the Chef authorization model, there is one special client, the +"validator", which is authorized to create new non-administrative +clients but has minimal privileges otherwise. This identity is used as a +sort of "guest account" to create a client identity when initially +setting up a host for management with Chef.</p> + +<h2 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h2> + +<p> <strong>knife-node</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> + + + <ol class='man-decor man-foot man foot'> + <li class='tl'>Chef 11.0.0.alpha</li> + <li class='tc'>September 2012</li> + <li class='tr'>knife-client(1)</li> + </ol> + + </div> +</body> +</html> |