Error -- : Ridley::Errors::HTTPForbidden: {"error":["missing create permission"]}

[srikar]

@kallistec

or that user doesn't have the create permission on the cookbooks container.

After reading this line from you twice, I went back and did better google search.
The below discussion has more insights on users/clients/cookbook container/chef-server internals; that you contributed in Oct, 15:

Upload/Create cookbooks using client

Hello everyone, I’d like to be able to upload a cookbook to a Chef Server using a ‘client’ and not a ‘user’. Is this supported? If not is it still technically possible? I did try but couldn’t get it to work. I’ll explain what I tried. I went into my Org and created a group called ‘test’. I then gave group ‘test’ list and create access to cookbooks in the Global Permissions. I then created a client called ‘uploader’. I then tried to add client ‘uploader’ to group ‘test’ but kept getting …