consul-template Windows consul template failing

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Consul template windows failing , i checked here:

Allow setting ownership by name by lukas-w · Pull Request #1541 · hashicorp/consul-template · GitHub, but seems we cant omit the permission part, getting the error below chown nginx.key: not supported by windows when writing the key.

2022-07-14T19:05:49.524+0100 [ERR] (cli) nginxcert.tpl: execute: template: :5:11: executing “” at <writeToFile “nginx.key” “test” “Administrators” “”>: error calling writeToFile: # chown nginx.key: not supported by windows

writeToFile “nginx.key” “test” “Administrators” "" if i leave the permission blank it errors out with missing args. When i test with a user not member of nay groups, it gives the same above error, missing args https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-template/pull/1531/commits/c9036a408c3473387dbf28306d62a11826c4c97d. Apologies i did created a request in consul discuss to no avail.

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Jul 17 '22 02:07 tsiamer

Hey @tsiamer, thanks for reporting this.

I'm working this a bit blind as I don't have a windows machine to test on, but looking through the code it seems like this form should work on Windows...

"content" | writeToFile "/my/file/path.txt" "" "" "0644"

It should skip Chown if the user/group are blanks and Chmod has limited support but ignores what it doesn't use, so that should work.

It's hard to tell exactly what you tried but it looked like all your cases had the user/group set which is unsupported by Windows but (as I said above) is skipped if set to blanks.

Please let me know if this doesn't fix it and, if it doesn't, please provide the template snippets you tried.

Thanks and good luck!

Aug 15 '22 20:08 eikenb

Hey @tsiamer, thanks for reporting this.

I'm working this a bit blind as I don't have a windows machine to test on, but looking through the code it seems like this form should work on Windows...
"content" | writeToFile "/my/file/path.txt" "" "" "0644"
It should skip Chown if the user/group are blanks and Chmod has limited support but ignores what it doesn't use, so that should work.

It's hard to tell exactly what you tried but it looked like all your cases had the user/group set which is unsupported by Windows but (as I said above) is skipped if set to blanks.

Please let me know if this doesn't fix it and, if it doesn't, please provide the template snippets you tried.

Thanks and good luck!

Hi Eikenb, thanks again for your help,

if i leave the permission blank, it errors out with missing args.

{{- with pkiCert "pki_int/issue/nginx" "ttl=10m" "common_name=test.exampple.com" -}} {{ .Cert }} {{ .CA }} {{ if .Key }} {{ .Key | writeToFile "/etc/nginx/certs/nginx.key" "" "" "0600" }}
{{ end }}{{ end }}

if you i put local admin:

{{- with pkiCert "pki_int/issue/nginx" "ttl=10m" "common_name=test.exampple.com" -}} {{ .Cert }} {{ .CA }} {{ if .Key }} {{ .Key | writeToFile "/etc/nginx/certs/nginx.key" "admin" "admin" "0644" }}
{{ end }}{{ end }}

It complains about "0644" chown not supported by windows.

Thanks

Aug 15 '22 21:08 tsiamer

Thanks for the quick reply.

Weird... that first version seems like it should work and the second should give a "syscall.EWINDOWS [..] error, wrapped in *PathError." Sounds like it is almost getting the arguments in the wrong order, but they are fixed position arguments so that doesn't seem possible.

I think this might need to wait until I get a chance to reproduce it on Windows... I currently don't have a setup for that.

Aug 15 '22 21:08 eikenb

Thanks for the quick reply.

Weird... that first version seems like it should work and the second should give a "syscall.EWINDOWS [..] error, wrapped in *PathError." Sounds like it is almost getting the arguments in the wrong order, but they are fixed position arguments so that doesn't seem possible.

I think this might need to wait until I get a chance to reproduce it on Windows... I currently don't have a setup for that.

Thank you i tried many options but it just wont work, hopefully you will get it working.

Thanks

Aug 15 '22 21:08 tsiamer