error: required environment variable not set for credentials attribute: User

[Sidnei da Silva]

Trying to bootstrap without setting any variables for the openstack provider in the environment results in:

$ juju bootstrap
error: required environment variable not set for credentials attribute: User

The error message does not give any hints to the user as to what he could do to fix the problem.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Note that the value could be set in config or in environment variables. So we probably shouldn't be complaining about just env variables. It is true, though, that we give an error without actually giving enough context for a user to fix it.

[Runar Ingebrigtsen (ringe)]

Second that.

[Runar Ingebrigtsen (ringe)]

How about a suggestion here?

[ugvddm (271025598-9)]

anyone else can tell me how to figure out this issue?

[Max Brustkern (nuclearbob)]

When I encountered this, I needed to source my novarc file before bootstrapping.

[Paul Gear (paulgear)]

This affects me even when novarc is already sourced.

[Paul Gear (paulgear)]

Clarification: it affects me when running 'charm test -e ENVIRONMENT', but not when running juju bootstrap directly.

[Cheryl Jennings (cherylj)]

For juju 2.0, users now can add credentials through an interactive `juju add-credential` command. They will be prompted for all the information they need to bootstrap.