I have couple of nodes where i face '413 "Request Entity Too Large" error'. After googling, I found that we need to disable the 'passwd' ohai plugin to reduce the node data size which is being saved to Chef server - Referring to: Opscode Chef Request entity too large registering a node Just wanted to know, if there will be any side effect, if we disable the 'passwd' ohai plugin.
The side effect is that node['etc']['passwd'] wont' be populated.