smart-on-fhir/cumulus-etl

Ugly traceback error if auth error happens during `init`

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#548 opened on Apr 28, 2026

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Description

To reproduce:

cumulus-etl init s3://bucket/folder/

without any AWS_PROFILE or anything. You'll get a gross auth traceback. But it should be a nicer, user-friendly error, suggesting to set AWS_PROFILE.

I think it also happens if the wrong --s3-kms-key is provided.

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Locate the init command's authentication code, catch the exception, and display a user friendly error message suggesting to set AWS PROFILE.
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python
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backendcli
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