Sudo Password

Note

Chef Automate 4.10.1 released on 6th September 2023 includes improvements to the deployment and installation experience of Automate HA. Please read the blog to learn more about key improvements. Refer to the pre-requisites page (On-Premises, AWS) and plan your usage with your customer success manager or account manager.

This page explains enabling the sudo password for the Chef Automate High Availability (HA) deployment.

If you have configured the sudo password for the user, you need to create an environment variable sudo_password and set the password as the variable’s value. Example: export sudo_password=YOUR_SUDO_PASSWORD. Once its done, run all sudo commands with the sudo -E or --preserve-env option. Example: sudo -E chef-automate iam version. This is required for the chef-automate CLI to run the commands with sudo privileges.

Steps to Enable Sudo Password

To enable the sudo password for the Chef Automate HA deployment, follow the steps below:

Create a sudo_password environment variable. Example: export sudo_password=1234.
Pass the sudo_password environment variable to the chef-automate CLI commands. Example: sudo -E chef-automate iam version.
a. To pass all your environment variables, including the sudo_password to the chef-automate CLI commands, you can use the -E or --preserve-env option. Example: sudo -E chef-automate iam version or sudo --preserve-env chef-automate iam version.
b. To pass the sudo_password environment variable to the chef-automate CLI commands, you can supply the environment variable name to the --preserve-env argument. Example: sudo --preserve-env=sudo_password chef-automate iam version.
You can also set environment variables directly in the sudo command. Example: sudo sudo_password=1234 chef-automate iam version.

Pass the sudo_password environment variable to all the chef-automate CLI commands.