Trying the Install Chef on Ubuntu

Linux Beginners / Newbie
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I am trying to install this -> how-to-install-chef-server-workstation-and-chef-client-on-ubuntu-18-04

When you are doing the Chef Workstation install it says to generate the ssh keys and I do that it puts a file_rsa and a file_rsa.pub in the .ssh directory. It says to do this -> “Upload the workstation node’s public key to the Chef server node.”
root@cfcws:~# ssh-copy-id root@chef.cfs.loc
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: ERROR: No identities found

Well there are no .pem files at all anywhere, Where are these files or how are they generated?

Thanks,
Michael

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Hi Michael,

Welcome to our forums.

The problem here seems to be that the key generation does not create the key files with their default name (to prevent overwrite I would guess), while ssh-copy-id tires to copy by their default name. You can specify the identity file with the -i option, like this:

# ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/file_rsa.pub root@chef.cfs.loc

Note that you need to copy your public key (.pub), not the private (with no file extension) key.

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Well shinola, That makes perfect sense.