Knife bootstrap can't connect

Chef Infra (archive)
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I am using:

knife bootstrap public_ip_address --ssh-user user_name —sudo --identity-file ~/.ssh/XXXXX.pem --environment QA --node-name MYSERVER --ssh-port=xxxx

I get the following results:

Node MYSERVER exists, overwrite it? (Y/N) Y
Client MYSERVER exists, overwrite it? (Y/N) Y
Creating new client for MYSERVER
Creating new node for MYSERVER
Connecting to ip_address
Failed to authenticate user_name - trying password auth
Enter your password:
ERROR: Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: Authentication failed for user user_name@ip_address@ip_address

I assume the double @ip_address is the problem. Why is it trying to authenticate user_name@ip_address@ip_address instead of user_name@ip_address

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  1. The hyphen ( - ) in front of sudo isn’t the right one. Put the whole
    command in a notepad, fix it and copy over to the terminal.

  2. Set the config file for ssh to avoid using the identity file in the
    command.

  3. Not sure becoz, i am replying from my phone. But i would replace the
    "–ssh-user" with -x

  4. Put the “-sudo” at the end of the command

I hope this works!

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Thanks for the help and pointing out the typo on sudo. It turns out the biggest problem was root was the owner of my XXXXXX.pem file. As soon as I changed the ownership to my user, the command executed successfully.