[inspec][1.6.0] inspec provisioner fails with winrm connection

[hc-github-team-packer]

This issue was originally opened by @lmayorga1980 in hashicorp/packer#9472 and has been migrated to this repository. The original issue description is below.

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It seems like inspec provisioner does not provide more detailed output on why the connection failed or execution expired.

{
      "type": "inspec",
      "inspec_env_vars": [ "CHEF_LICENSE=accept"],
      "backend": "winrm",
      "host":"myremotehost",
      "profile" : "inspec/profile",
      "user": "Administrator",
      "extra_arguments": [ "--user", "{{user `win_user`}}", "--password", "{{user `win_password`}}" , "--port", "5986", "--insecure"]
    }

==> openstack: Provisioning with Inspec...
2020/06/23 20:37:42 packer-provisioner-inspec plugin: SSH proxy: serving on 127.0.0.1:63515
==> openstack: Executing Inspec: inspec exec inspec/profile --backend winrm --host myremotehost --user Administrator --input-file /var/folders/8l/z3xs5ygs1blb5_9z58kmpy_d2gwgq4/T/packer-provisioner-inspec.034262034.yml --user Administrator  --password ****** --port 5986 --insecure
    openstack: execution expired
2020/06/23 20:38:55 packer-provisioner-inspec plugin: shutting down the SSH proxy
2020/06/23 20:38:55 [INFO] (telemetry) ending inspec
==> openstack: Provisioning step had errors: Running the cleanup provisioner, if present...

[nywilken]

With the archival of this repository all open issues will be marked as read-only. If you wish to further discuss this plugin or any of its open issues we invite you to open a discussion on the Packer community forum.

More details on the plugin archiving process for this provisioner can be found on the Plans to Archive Unmaintained Packer Provisioner Plugins blog post.