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Expand Up @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ aws-mfa: Easily manage your AWS Security Credentials when using Multi-Factor Aut

The concept behind **aws-mfa** is that there are 2 types of credentials:

* `long-term` - Your typcial AWS access keys, consisting of an `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`
* `long-term` - Your typical AWS access keys, consisting of an `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`

* `short-term` - A temporary set of credentials that are generated by AWS STS using your `long-term` credentials in combination with your MFA device serial number (either a hardware device serial number or virtual device ARN) and one time token code. Your short term credentials are the credentials that are actively utilized by the AWS SDK in use.

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In a typical AWS credentials file (located at `~/.aws/credentials`), credentials are stored in sections, denoted by a pair of brackets: `[]`. The `[default]` section stores your default credentials. You can store multiple sets of credentials using different profile names. If no profile is specified, the `[default]` section is always used.

By default long term credential sections are identified by the convention `[<profile_name>-long-term]` and short term credentials are identified by the typical convention: `[<profile_name>]`. The following illustrates how you would configure you credentials file using **aws-mfa** with your default credentials:
By default, long term credential sections are identified by the convention `[<profile_name>-long-term]` and short term credentials are identified by the typical convention: `[<profile_name>]`. The following illustrates how you would configure your credentials file using **aws-mfa** with your default credentials:

```ini
[default-long-term]
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$> aws s3 list-objects —bucket my-production-bucket —profile myorganization-production

$> aws s3 list-objects —bucket my-staging-bucket —profile myorganization-staging
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```