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making Auth - bad clock errors clearer #87

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@jeremymv2 jeremymv2 commented Aug 28, 2016

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Clarify 401 Auth - bad clock error.

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This change adds clarification to the HTTP 401/403 Authentication errors due to time skew between client and server.

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**401, 403 Unauthorized - bad clock**

Occasionally, the system date/time will drift between client and server. If this drift is greate than a couple of minutes, the Chef Server will throw a 401 Aunauthorized and the request will not be forwarded to the Compliance server.
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nit: unauthorized

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Great idea to add a Troubleshoot.md @jeremymv2 I added to really minor comments. LGTM once they are fixed

@chris-rock chris-rock merged commit 8d4e201 into chef-boneyard:master Aug 29, 2016
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Thanks @jeremymv2 for this clarification

@jeremymv2 jeremymv2 deleted the time_drift_causes_401 branch August 29, 2016 11:23
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