chef-boneyard/knife-acl

Commands referring to 'clients' group fail with Chef 12.9.41

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I came across this while following some advice on pre-creating nodes.
As an example, the following command from the README claims the 'clients' group does not exist although it is clearly in the group list.


$ date;knife --version;chef gem list knife-acl;echo "*** Groups *** "; knife group list | grep clients; knife acl add group clients containers nodes create,read
Thu May  5 15:08:49 CDT 2016
Chef: 12.9.41

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

knife-acl (1.0.2)
*** Groups ***
clients
FATAL: group 'clients' does not exist

@dannypurcell : Sometime you get this error message when you don't have enough permissions on the chef-server node...

$ knife acl bulk add group clients nodes '.*' update,read --server-url https://chef...
FATAL: group 'clients' does not exist



$ knife acl bulk add group clients nodes '.*' update,read --server-url https://chef... --user admin --key xxxx 

The ACL of the following nodes will be modified:
...
tas50 commented

Closing based on @xakraz's comments