disable_sign_up_enterprise_chef

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How to disable the sign up form on a public facing Enterprise Chef Install

This document assumes you already have opscode-manage installed on your Enterprise Chef server, and will walk you through the process of disabling the sign-up form seen by default.

1. On the Enterprise Chef server append opscode-manage configuration file as follows:

   sudo echo 'disable_sign_up true' >> /etc/opscode-manage/manage.rb

2. Reconfigure opscode-manage:

   sudo opscode-manage-ctl reconfigure

Now that sign ups are disabled, how do I manage my Private Chef Server?

Take a look at the knife-opc plugin to provide greater administrative access from the command line.

Note: if you are using Enterprise Chef in either a 'tiered' or an 'ha' topology, you will want to do this on all nodes. Start with the bootstrapped backend server first, and then proceed with the front end servers.