AWS S3 ls profile does find user-CodePudding

I am getting an error from aws cli on my Ubuntu desktop when running the command aws s3 ls --profile=55667788-its-user. When I run this command as my Ubuntu user it says it cannot find the config for the user, and if I swap to root I get access denied on s3 buckets.

Now, I ran aws configure and I set my profile in credentials and I also ran aws configure --profile as well, and I checked the config file. There's also an interesting problem that AWS_PROFILE is never found.

I am really banging my head as to why this is not working.

Anyone know how to fix this?

CodePudding user response：

Make sure you have an .aws directory in your home directory (i.e. in ~/.aws).

Then, you will need a config file in which you will have your profile like:

[profile 55667788-its-user]
region = <YOUR PREFERRED SESSION> (e.g: eu-central-1)
output = json

You also need a credentials file with the following:

[55667788-its-user]
aws_access_key_id=<ACCES KEY GOES HERE>
aws_secret_access_key=<SECRET KEY GOES HERE>
aws_session_token=<THIS IS OPTIONAL, ONLY USE IT IF YOU USE SSO AND TEMPORARY SESSIONS>

The following should then work in your terminal:

aws s3 ls --profile 55667788-its-user

CodePudding user response：

Check credentials file. I assume you have several profiles in it. When I created my second profile, aws configure didn't add new line. So, it looked like this:

[default]
...
region=us-west-2[55667788-its-user]
aws_access_key_id=...

which caused all kind of problems. Also, check the permissions - it has to be 600 (no read for group or other)