aws-credential-process 0.11.0

AWS Credential Process

README

Description

Script to use as credential_process for the AWS CLI (including boto3), it caches your MFA session in a keyring and can use a Yubi key to authenticate.

This is useful if you are required to use MFA authenticated sessions or need an MFA authenticated session to assume a role.

Installing

You can install aws-credential-process using pip:

pip install aws_credential_process

I recommend to install aws-credential-process in a virtualenv:

virtualenv ~/venv/aws_credential_process
~/venv/aws_credential_process/bin/pip install aws_credential_process

After the above commands you should be able to run ~/venv/aws_credential_process/bin/aws-credential-process

Usage

You can use the following arguments to start aws-credential-process:

Usage: aws-credential-process [OPTIONS]

  Get output suitable for aws credential process

Options:
  --access-key-id TEXT
  --secret-access-key TEXT
  --mfa-oath-slot TEXT            how the MFA slot is named, check using ykman
                                  oath code

  --mfa-serial-number TEXT        MFA serial number, see IAM console
  --mfa-session-duration INTEGER  duration in seconds, use zero to assume role
                                  without session

  --assume-session-duration INTEGER
                                  duration in seconds
  --assume-role-arn TEXT          IAM Role to be assumed, optional
  --force-renew
  --credentials-section TEXT      Use this section from ~/.aws/credentials
  --pin-entry TEXT                pin-entry helper, should be compatible with
                                  Assuan protocol (GPG)

  --log-file TEXT
  --config-section TEXT           Use this section in config-file
  --config-file TEXT
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

aws-credential-process is meant to be used as credential_process in your .aws/config file. For example:

[profile yourprofile]
credential_process = /home/user/venv/aws_credential_process/bin/aws-credential-process --mfa-oath-slot "Amazon Web Services:[e-mail]" --mfa-serial-number arn:aws:iam::123456789012:mfa/john.doe --assume-role-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/YourRole

Configuration

aws-credential-process can also use a configuration file, the default location of this file is ~/.config/aws-credential-process/config.toml. This file contains defaults so you don't have to supply all of the arguments.

You can configure a default pin-entry program like:

pin_entry = /usr/local/bin/pin_entry

Or you can define multiple config-sections:

[123457890123]
mfa_oath_slot="Amazon Web Services:user@123457890123"
assume_role_arn="arn:aws:iam::123457890123:role/Other/Role"
credentials_section="123457890123"
mfa_serial_number="arn:aws:iam::123457890123:mfa/user"

[098765432101]
mfa_oath_slot="Amazon Web Services:user@098765432101"
credentials_section="098765432101"
mfa_serial_number="arn:aws:iam::098765432101:mfa/user"

If you need to assume roles from a certain AWS account you'll end up with a lot of simular entries. To make this simple the configuration can be defined hierarchical.

[[org]]
mfa_oath_slot="Amazon Web Services:user@123457890123"
assume_role_arn="arn:aws:iam::{section}:role/Other/Role"
credentials_section="123457890123"
mfa_serial_number="arn:aws:iam::123457890123:mfa/user"

[[org.098765432101]]
[[org.567890123456]]

This would be the same as the following configuration:

[098765432101]
mfa_oath_slot="Amazon Web Services:user@123457890123"
assume_role_arn="arn:aws:iam::098765432101:role/Other/Role"
credentials_section="123457890123"
mfa_serial_number="arn:aws:iam::123457890123:mfa/user"

[567890123456]
mfa_oath_slot="Amazon Web Services:user@123457890123"
assume_role_arn="arn:aws:iam::567890123456:role/Other/Role"
credentials_section="123457890123"
mfa_serial_number="arn:aws:iam::123457890123:mfa/user"

With the above configuration aws-credential-process can be used like this in ~/.aws/config:

[profile profile1]
credential_process = /home/user/venv/aws_credential_process/bin/aws-credential-process --config-section=098765432101

[profile profile2]
credential_process = /home/user/venv/aws_credential_process/bin/aws-credential-process --config-section=567890123456

Optional arguments

If you've supplied the secret-access-key once you can omit it with the next call, it will be cached in your keyring.

When you don't supply the access-key-id it will be loaded from ~/.aws/credentials. You can use another section than "default" by using the credentials-section argument.

If you don't specify *-session-duration the default value from AWS will be used (3600 seconds). When --mfa-session-duration is set to 0 and you use --assume-role-arn a role will be assumed without using a session. Some API calls can't be made when the role is assumed using an MFA session.

You can also omit the --assume-role-arn, then you can use an MFA authenticated session using your permanent IAM credentials.