Chef provisioner not working in FreeBSD

[alice-sawatzky]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.8
+ provider.aws v1.34.0

Terraform Configuration Files

(this requires a SSH key pair in the same directory, with the file names test and test.pub for the private and public keys, respectively)

provider "aws" {
  region = "ca-central-1"
}

resource "aws_key_pair" "freebsd_test" {
  key_name = "freebsd_test"
  public_key = "${file("test.pub")}"
}

resource "aws_security_group" "freebsd_test" {
  name = "freebsd_ssh"
  ingress {
    from_port = 22
    to_port = 22
    protocol = "TCP"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }

  egress {
    from_port       = 0
    to_port         = 0
    protocol        = "-1"
    cidr_blocks     = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
}

resource "aws_instance" "freebsd_test" {
  ami           = "ami-54a32130" #FreeBSD 11.2
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
  key_name = "${aws_key_pair.freebsd_test.key_name}"
  security_groups = ["freebsd_ssh"]
  #the chef provisioner needs sudo, curl, and bash to work
  provisioner "remote-exec" {
    inline = [
      "echo 'pkg install -y sudo curl bash' | su",
      "echo 'echo \"ec2-user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL\" >> /usr/local/etc/sudoers' | su"
    ]
    connection {
      type = "ssh"
      user = "ec2-user"
      private_key = "${file("test")}"
    }
  }

  provisioner "chef" {
    node_name = "freebsd-test"
    run_list = ["example"]
    server_url = "example.com"
    user_key = "test"
    user_name = "test"
    connection {
      type = "ssh"
      user = "ec2-user"
      private_key = "${file("test")}"
    }
  }
}

Expected Behavior

The dummy chef config should have been created, likely failing on the dummy server URL and credentials given.

Actual Behavior

The provisioner fails when trying to chown the user key, because it uses an outdated syntax for chown that most Linux distros accept as a backwards compatibility measure, but FreeBSD doesn't.

aws_instance.freebsd_test: Still creating... (3m30s elapsed)
aws_instance.freebsd_test (chef): Thank you for installing Chef!
aws_instance.freebsd_test (chef): Creating configuration files...
aws_instance.freebsd_test: Still creating... (3m40s elapsed)
aws_instance.freebsd_test (chef): chown: root.root: illegal user name
aws_instance.freebsd_test (chef): Cleanup user key...

Steps to Reproduce

1. mkdir freebsd-test; cd freebsd-test
2. ssh keygen -t rsa -f test
3. copy the configuration file in this bug report to main.tf
4. terraform apply

References

PR #18533 fixes this

[svanharmelen]

Closing this issue as PR #18533 is just merged and will be in the next release.

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