Export not working

[kinderlars]

Hi,

I have installed awstools a few days ago and I think it is a really nice solution. The problem is, the created keys are not exported to my shell. Using zsh and not sure why this is happening.

Hope you can help.

Cheers, Lars

[sam701]

Hi @kinderlars , yes, zsh is tricky. The idea is that awstools assume prints a shell script that must be sourced into your current shell session. It is difficult to debug remotely. To reproduce I'd need:

• In what file did you define aws_assume() function?
• What zsh version do you use?
• Do you use any additional plugins with zsh?

P.S. You might consider to use awscredx if you are mostly interested in the role assumption. That project has focus on role assumptions.

[kinderlars]

Hi @sam701,

thanks for the quick response. I am using zsh 5.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0)

I defined the assume_role() function in .bash_profiles and added source /Users/lars/.bash_profile to my .zshenv file

Cheers, Lars

[sam701]

You do not actually need a separate .bash_profile, you can define assume_role directly in .zshenv. Next please check if it's not a typo: you wrote .bash_profiles (plural) but source ../.bash_profile (singular).

What's happening when you type assume_role abc abc in your shell?

[kinderlars]

Was a typo, sorry about that. Added the aws_assume() to .zshenv now

assume_role zsh: command not found: assume_role

[sam701]

It means .zshenv is not loaded by your shell. I suppose if you explicitly call source ~/.zshenv it will work. You should make sure you define aws_assume in a file that is sourced by your shell. Otherwise the shell is not aware of the function.

[kinderlars]

Thanks a lot for the help. :) Sadly even when sourcing, the function still does not get detected. Any other idea why this could happen?

[kinderlars]

@sam701 , got the function assume_role to work. Somehow it was not able to detect my config.toml so.

aws_assume ACCOUNT ROLE 2021/04/30 11:05:45 ERROR open /Users/lars/.config/awstools/awstools.toml: no such file or directory

Had to rename the file from config.toml to awstools.toml

A new problem, now I am not able to run awstools assume anymoe :D awstools assume ACCOUNT ROLE 2021/04/30 11:13:49 ERROR open /Users/lars/.config/awstools/config.toml: no such file or directory

[sam701]

Could you paste your assume_role shell function? And also the output of awstools assume none none?

[kinderlars]

Hi @sam701,

I removed the assume_role from my zshenv and now only using the helper script function.

function aws_assume() { config_file="${config_dir}/awstools.toml" creds_file=$(mktemp) awstools --config ${config_file} assume --export ${creds_file} $@; source ${creds_file}; rm ${creds_file} }

In addition awstools now works as intended as well. awstools assume none none 2021/05/04 15:31:58 No such account: none

Not sure what is different, but the issue can be closed, as it was on my end.

Thanks again for supporting me. :)

[kinderlars]

@sam701 : Sorry about it, forgot that the export with awstools assume was the original problem. That is still not working, therefore I re-opened the ticket.

[sam701]

Hmm, I couldn't reproduce this issue. Here is what I did:

cp ~/.config/awstools/config.toml /tmp/tt.toml
cat > /tmp/tt.sh <<EOF
function aws_assume() {
  config_file="/tmp/tt.toml"
  creds_file=\$(mktemp)
  awstools --config \${config_file} assume --export \${creds_file} \$@; source \${creds_file};
  cat \${creds_file}
  rm \${creds_file}
}
EOF
zsh --version
export SHELL=$(which zsh)
source /tmp/tt.sh
aws_assume my_account my_role

Can you try the same, obfuscate and paste the output?