mac catalina permission problems

[powellquiring]

The latest OS update from mac - Catalina is raising some potential security issues and warnings. I was messing about quite a bit while getting this working but here is the general flow after Catalina

1. Executing terraform failed, Followed the instructions here: macOS Catalina error: “terraform” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. hashicorp/terraform#23033 (comment)

2. Executing the terraform apply using the ibm plugin failed
   

Fixed it in preferences:

Then ran terraform again and still needed to click open:

3. Copied a new plugin into the .terraform/plugins directory and then back in the terraform configuration:

rm -rf .terraform
terraform init
terraform apply

Had the problem again. So every plugin download seems likely to hit this problem.

Expected

In order of desirability:

1. ibm plugin would be in the standard terraform place and automatically work
2. downloaded plugin would work with no security dialogs

[ZVilusinsky]

Confirming this on v1.2.3 and it's quite annoying.

[l2fprod]

this is still there on the latest release. An option is to run xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine terraform-provider-ibm_v1.7.1 on the command line (https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/).

[hkantare]

We are working on process of making the binary notarization

[hkantare]

We are done with mac notarization process availble from last couple of releases
https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm/releases/tag/v1.21.1