aws-sts-get-mfa-profile 1.2.1

A library to setup an AWS CLI profile for an account with MFA enabled

AWS STS Get MFA Profile

Use this package to automatically setup an MFA enabled profile for AWS CLI

1. Install AWS CLI
2. Sign up for MFA in the AWS IAM Management console (if you haven't already) and note the MFA ARN.
3. Create an access key in the AWS IAM Management console (if you haven't already) and note the access key id and secret.
4. Create a credential text file profile in your home directory ('C:\Users\SamuelMercer\.aws\credentials') with an mfa profile like below

[mfa]
aws_access_key_id = AKIAWZ...
aws_secret_access_key = XzRI...
mfa_serial = arn:aws:iam::467792...:mfa/...

5. Install the python package using pip

> python -m pip install aws-sts-get-mfa-profile

6. Run the script get-sts-token.py using the required length of token in seconds (don't do more than 1 day == 86400 seconds)

> get-sts-token.py

7. When making AWS CLI calls from now on it should work, e.g.

> aws iam list-users

{
    "Users": [
        {
            ...