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Improper installation warning when trying to run aws-iam-authenticator with aws client

11/9/2018

I'm getting the following warning when trying to run the aws client with the aws-iam-authenticator for kubernetes:

Warning: aws-iam-authenticator is not installed properly or is not in your path.

However, the aws-iam-authenticator is clearly in my path, since I can call aws-iam-authenticator help and it returns results:

$ aws-iam-authenticator help
A tool to authenticate to Kubernetes using AWS IAM credentials

Usage:
  heptio-authenticator-aws [command]
...

Oddly enough though, which aws-iam-authenticator does not return successfully. So something is odd with my PATH.

Here is a subset of my path:

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:~/work/helpers/bin:~/.rbenv/shims:...:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

The aws-iam-authenticator is located in ~/work/helpers/bin

-- Gavin Miller
amazon-web-services
aws-iam
kubernetes

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1 Answer

11/9/2018

Turns out the issue is because I used the ~ in my PATH. I found this issue and comment that pointed me in the correct direction. Updating my PATH to below solved my issue:

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/$HOME/work/helpers/bin:/$HOME/.rbenv/shims:...:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
# Where $HOME is expanded properly

I think it may be best practice to prefer $HOME vs ~ in PATH exports, but I can't find anything on SO / internet to confirm or deny.

-- Gavin Miller
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