print assumed timezone on stderr when access tokens seem to be stale

[cruwe]

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Description

To use terraform with MS Azure, a valid access token must be obtained beforehand with az login.

One may be tempted to run az packaged as a docker container (to prevent polluting the workstation). terraform (statically linked) does not warrant such hooks and loops.

By standard, docker containers run on UTC and accordingly, az formats and stores access tokens in UTC. When the host terraform is then invoked on runs on a different timezone and the variable $TZ is unset, tokens may be stale without the user realizing.

I have requested to document this behaviour with PR #1706. I do not know how to (I would do it myself then), but it may be of value to stderr the $TZ terraform assumes for the az token so that debugging such failures may be easier.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm provider

References

• PR tokens invalid when az and terraform run on different timezones #1706

[tombuildsstuff]

hey @cruwe

Thanks for opening this issue - apologies for the delayed response here!

We've recently migrated the Authentication logic out of this repository and into a common helper library so that we're able to iterate on it and then reuse it across Providers - as such I'm going to migrate this issue over to that repository: hashicorp/go-azure-helpers#3

Thanks!

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