Where artifactory_user stores generated password?

[piotrminkina]

Hello, I'm using artifactory_user resource. I noticed when password field is omitted, a random password is generated, but how to get this password? I read the state from the tfstate file and this password is not there. I did not receive it by email either, because I did not configure an SMTP server on my Artifactory instance.

Below is a part of my tfstate file.

    {
      "mode": "managed",
      "type": "artifactory_user",
      "name": "admin",
      "provider": "provider[\"registry.terraform.io/jfrog/artifactory\"]",
      "instances": [
        {
          "schema_version": 0,
          "attributes": {
            "admin": true,
            "disable_ui_access": false,
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "groups": null,
            "id": "admin",
            "internal_password_disabled": false,
            "name": "admin",
            "password": null,
            "profile_updatable": true
          },
          "sensitive_attributes": [],
          "private": "some-base64-value-here"
        }
      ]
    },

I wonder if the artifactory_user resource has behaved correctly. Before running Terraform Apply, I forgot to import the existing admin user into the tfstate file. Because of this, Terraform wanted to create a new admin user, well that failed miserably. In my opinion, this process should have ended with an error, because there was an attempt to create a user that already exists in Artifactory, but there was no mention of this fact in the tfstate file.

Regards
Piotr Minkina

[alexhung]

Ok I can confirm this is a bug. Please create a issue so we can work on a fix.

[alexhung]

I created issue #602

[piotrminkina]

@alexhung Thanks for created issue. What about the case where an existing 'admin' user has been overwritten by Terraform? In my opinion, Terraform Apply should end with an error about the fact that the user that Terraform wants to create already exists.

[alexhung]

The fix should resolve that too. Currently any error from the API request is not sent back to Terraform so it doesn't know the request failed.

[danielmkn]

@piotrminkina, could you please create an issue with the detailed description, we will take a look. Since the password issue won't be fixed, this problem will require separate attention.

[danielmkn]

@piotrminkina, please check #623