Provisioner Chef - Ohai Hints Permission Denied

[phoolish]

I get this error when trying to provision chef with a user other then root:

* Uploading ec2.json failed: scp: /etc/chef/ohai/hints/ec2.json: Permission denied

Here is the provisioner:

provisioner "chef"  {
  environment = "production"
  run_list = ["role[basic]"]
  node_name = "name-stage01"
  server_url = "https://name.com/organizations/name"
  ohai_hints = ["../ec2.json"]
  validation_client_name = "chef-validator"
  validation_key_path = "../../.chef/chef-validator.pem"
  connection {
    user = "ec2-user"
    agent = true
  }
}

NOTE: ec2.json is an empty json file in my local path.

My work around:

provisioner "remote-exec" {
  inline = [
    "sudo mkdir -p /etc/chef/ohai/hints",
    "sudo touch /etc/chef/ohai/ec2.json"
  ]
  connection {
    user = "ec2-user"
    agent = true
  }
}
provisioner "chef"  {
  environment = "production"
  run_list = ["role[basic]"]
  node_name = "name-stage01"
  server_url = "https://name.com/organizations/name"
  validation_client_name = "chef-validator"
  validation_key_path = "../../.chef/chef-validator.pem"
  connection {
    user = "ec2-user"
    agent = true
  }
}

[phoolish]

Thanks!

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