Cluster not Reachable when exec Authentication is used about podman-desktop

[kwkelly]

I get the same error using exec authentication with aws.

I suspect this has to do with the availability (or lack thereof) of the command for the exec in the path.

I have the aws command installed at /usr/local/bin/aws, and if I start podman desktop and omit /usr/local/bin from the PATH (e.g. PATH=/usr/bin open /Applications/Podman\ Desktop.app/), I get the TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'toString')) error.

On the other hand, if I make sure that authentication command is available in my path (e.g. PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin open /Applications/Podman\ Desktop.app/), it works just fine.

So in your kube config file, you can add the path where the command is installed as part of the env config.

env:
   - name: PATH
     value: $PATH:/usr/local/bin

you'll have to do this for each user/context. You could also add the command to one of your global paths (on macos those that are in /etc/paths)