aws-sts-token-helper

This is shell helper for you to use MFA token to authenticate access AWS resources with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Prerequisite

AWS CLI
AWS account ready and you already have a pair of aws_access_key_id / aws_secret_access_key ready

Run aws configure to set your permanent aws_access_key_id / aws_secret_access_key pair into a profile.

aws configure --profile normal-profile

And follow the instruction on screen.

Next step is to clone this repo. and copy .config.example to .config

cp .config.example .config

And made changes accordingly. For the ARN_OF_MFA, login to AWS console. IAM > Users > your account > security credentials > Assigned MFA device.

Find your AWS MFA token and run the following.

./aws-sts-token-helper.sh -t 123456

Your AWS profile will be updated accordingly. So you can try the following to see if it work:

aws --profile profile-with-mfa s3 ls

Script only tested under macos. Not sure if it work on Linux platform.

cp .env.example .env
make && ./aws-sts-token-helper -t 123456