receive error when initializing the backend

[dsmithcloud]

Following the steps as outlined in the README, I receive the following error when running terraform init to initialize the backend:

Initializing the backend...

Error configuring the backend "azurerm": resource_group_name and credentials must be provided when access_key is absent

Please update the configuration in your Terraform files to fix this error
then run this command again.

To resolve this, I commented out the line in outputs.tf that sets sensitive=true so I could see the key, then re-ran

terraform init -backend-config="access_key=".

This may be a terraform-related bug:
hashicorp/terraform#18325

[kvcobb]

Yeah, I got the same thing. Also per the instructions:

Copy the access_key output from the state terraform apply command into the backend.tfvars file.

But my console output creating state didn't give the key, it's obscured as "". Could you update your instructions for this and some direction on the backend.tfvars? This file isn't in your project.

Thanks!