aws.signature (version 0.2.6)

read_credentials: Use Credentials from .aws/credentials File

Description

Use a profile from a .aws/credentials file

Usage

use_credentials(profile = "default", file = "~/.aws/credentials")
read_credentials(file = "~/.aws/credentials")

Arguments

profile

A character string specifing which profile to use from the file. By default, the “default” profile is used.

file

A character string containing a path to a .aws/credentials file. By default, the standard/centralized file is used. For use_credentials, this can also be an object of class “aws_credentials” (as returned by use_credentials).

Details

read_credentials reads and parses a .aws/credentials file into an object of class “aws_credentials”.

use_credentials uses credentials from a profile stored in a credentials file to set the environment variables used by this package.

References

Amazon blog post describing the format

See Also

signature_v2_auth, use_credentials

Examples

## Not run: 
# # set environment variables from a profile
# use_credentials()
# 
# # read and parse a file
# read_credentials()
# ## End(Not run)