Error: Private key not recognized, key is not in PEM format about terraform-provider-snowflake HOT 4 CLOSED

Thank you for the response @sfc-gh-asawicki, I literally just figured out what was wrong and it had everything to do with how the private key was being stored in AWS Secrets Manager and all is working as expected now!

Moving this issue to closed.

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I am wondering if there is some form of pre-processing that must be done to the private key before passing it to the Snowflake provider configuration. We typically perform some processing when using the python connector with a private key but to my knowledge this is using the go gosnowflake library.

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Removing new lines from the private key body stops complaining about the RSA key not being in a PEM format, but then compains about the JWT being invalid.

Sample Key:

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIJJwIBAAKCAgBbKusUIihl3myn27+OKsV1xpuRv9ik9wTNhbJOPl8+I5b1zjsQ...GwZ92w+osBZvR0qia2xYuJUpoS8NaJSlS2GCYigNKoldaN3QDEfHvm7Kxw==
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

│ Error: open snowflake connection: 390144 (08004): JWT token is invalid. [ff4e4855-9e30-4213-b0b6-edcc5d94f200]
│ 
│   with provider["[registry.terraform.io/snowflake-labs/snowflake](http://registry.terraform.io/snowflake-labs/snowflake)"],
│   on [main.tf](http://main.tf/) line 36, in provider "snowflake":
│   36: provider "snowflake" {
│ 
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Hey @ToxicCypher. Thanks for reporting the issue.

At first glance, it does not look like a problem with the provider. The error code 08004 indicates that the connection was rejected. The error 390144 is mentioned here: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/key-pair-auth-troubleshooting#list-of-errors with possible troubleshooting:

Please make sure that your key is generated correctly according to docs.
You should copy the exact content from the generated key file.

Also, you can try using private_key with terraform file function like:

private_key = file("<filepath>")

where <filepath> points to your private key file.

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