Chef-server-ctl user-create failed

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi All,

i have installed chef server 12.13.0 on brand new machine. installation and reconfgiration is successfull but when i tries to create user on server it gives error.

chef-server-ctl user-create username Dev Grp username@gmail.com ‘password’ --filename /tmp/devops.pem
ERROR: Failed to authenticate to https://127.0.0.1:443 as pivotal with key /etc/opscode/pivotal.pem
Response: Invalid signature for user or client ‘pivotal’

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Have you run this with root privilege? Add sudo to the beginning of the command and go from there…

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Hi Svucich,
Issue got resolved now!! the problem was the node had old configuration of nginx it was referring to.

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hi,
I am also getting same error when try to create user in chef. What can i do?
and i am new for it