.cdktf/ is created in $HOME without any ability to override it

[lestephane]

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Description

My $HOME is not writable, so that whenever a tool tries to add something there, I know about it, and either drop the tool or create the directory myself, with a mask that I control. This has always me to keep my $HOME tidy.

I tried using cdktf for the first time today, and got the following error

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/SCRUBBED/.cdktf'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1349:3)
    at Object.Gz (/home/lestephane/GitRepos/cdktf-playground/node_modules/cdktf-cli/bundle/bin/cmds/handlers.js:7:7129)
    at GRe (/home/lestephane/GitRepos/cdktf-playground/node_modules/cdktf-cli/bundle/bin/cmds/handlers.js:392:3323)
    at Xzt (/home/lestephane/GitRepos/cdktf-playground/node_modules/cdktf-cli/bundle/bin/cmds/handlers.js:392:3594)

It is customary to make those locations overridable using environment variables (example: $TF_PLUGIN_CACHE_DIR).

References

[ansgarm]

Hi @lestephane! Thank you for raising this.

We do offer an CDKTF_HOME environment variable, however there was one instance where it wasn't used. I created https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/pull/1778 to fix that.

[ansgarm]

Closed via #1778

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