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Chef Workstation in FIPS mode errors when running Test Kitchen to Windows platform targets #2111
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Hi @collinmcneese , To reproduce the issue i created the instance(rhel8) on AWS, installed the chef-workstation on it. and tried to run the command
Do you know anything i'm missing while setup? |
Hi @sanga1794 -- I have not tried with Vagrant/Virtualbox configuration on a FIPS enabled system, there might be some other nuances there, are you attempting to run virtualbox from within virtualbox perhaps? For the mockups that I was working with, I was using a local CentOS 7 VM but then using the |
Hi All, This is an issue with the |
Description
When running Chef Workstation in FIPS mode from an EL7 system, the error
Digest initialization failed: disabled for fips
is encountered when running with specific criteria:Policyfile.rb
All other tested scenarios appear to work without issue, but when the three criteria above are met, the error
Digest initialization failed: disabled for fips
will appear.As a workaround, adding
CHEF_FIPS=''
to the env does seem to work to converge successfully but that does not fix the underlying cause and requires automated pipelines to have this set, including those which should be operating in an environment where FIPS is enforced.Small version of the error:
Larger version with debug information:
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