ERROR: You authenticated successfully to https:<chef_server_url> as <user> but you are not authorized for this action
Response: missing create permission
I'm running a pretty basic bootstrap command for a Windows AWS instance
knife bootstrap windows winrm ....
Currently running the Chef server on-site and not hosted at this time. I also get the same error using knife to attempt to create a new group. I SSH'd into the Chef server and verified my user is listed when I run
sudo chef-server-ctl list-server-admins
so it appears I have been granted server-admins permissions. I also see the same errors when trying to view and create things via the web UI. I've been going in circles almost all day trying to resolve this with no luck
Well, this turned out to be pretty simple after all. From the terminal on the Chef server:
sudo chef-server-ctl org-user-add <org> <user> --admin
Docs - https://docs.chef.io/server_users.html
I was able to add myself to the admins group and handle other permission related task from there