Knife bootstrap node

Chef Automate
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i am trying to bootstrap a node and my nodes are under VMware as guests . when i run knife bootstrap command i am getting error as below

error failed to authenticate to https://api.chef.io with key
Response failed to authenticate as , synchronize the clock on your host

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What does the contents of your knife.rb or config.rb look like? It should make no difference where your vms are running or physical vs virtual. Are you using hosted chef?

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HI
yes i am using hosted chef.may i know which location config.rb hosted that you are referring?

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my current knife.rb contents

See http://docs.chef.io/config_rb_knife.html for more information on knife configuration options

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)
log_level :info
log_location STDOUT
node_name "prashi89"
client_key "#{current_dir}/prashi89.pem"
chef_server_url "https://api.chef.io/organizations/prasanthinc"
cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

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Based on whats its telling you i would make sure the time on your workstation is correct.

If that is working I would recommend resetting the pem key for your user account.

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Thanks Larry ,

so far i try to change time only in GUI , when i change in command line in linux and change in file , it started showing correct time and able to communicate to hosted chef now .

Thanks a lot