Amazon Web Services multi-factor authentication on the command line#

You're a software developer working for a client who gave you an IAM user that requires multi-factor authentication.

All of your work for this client is in subdirectories of ~/client-foo.

You'd like to run the aws CLI, but you can't pass one-time tokens to it to authenticate.

wev's contextual environment variables can manage that for you.

Install wev and wev-awsmfa:

pip3 install wev
pip3 install wev-awsmfa

Create ~/client-foo/wev.yml:

[AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN]:
  plugin:
    id: wev-awsmfa

cd into a project directory, then run aws via wev:
```
cd ~/client-foo/project-bar
wev aws s3 ls
```
You will be prompted to enter your one-time token, then aws will run.

Last update: 2021-01-23