#get_password_data | Still can't receive a decrypted password

[Freaklin]

There's no option to get a decrypt windows password so people have to take a workaround using aws-cli through shell or base64 stuff...
Could you provide us a solution for this with an option like "[--priv-launch-key ]" available on "aws-cli get-data-password"

[awood45]

Can you please explain a bit more about what you're trying to do?

[Freaklin]

Quiet simple :)

I'm using aws-sdk for ruby and I'm trying to retrieve a password of a windows instance.

ec2 = Aws::EC2::Client.new( region: region_name )
ec2.get_password_data({ instance_id: "instance_id" })

then it returns me a encrypted password.

But using AWS-CLI I'm able to retrieve A already decrypted password, pointing a .pem file.

aws ec2 get-password-data --priv-launch-key file.pem --instance-id "instance_id"

I would like an option like "--priv-launch-key file.pem" on aws-sdk for ruby. well I guess not only me once I've found an issue on the aws-sdk-v1 with the same request.

#459

[awood45]

Looking at the CLI source for this functionality, the ask appears to be for client-side decryption of EC2 passwords as a plugin.

I'll add this as a feature request, and would also be happy to take a pull request for this.

[cjyclaire]

This feature is already supported in SDK now, you can decrypt windows instance password by:

# After you have an available running instance
ec2 = Aws::EC2::Resource.new(region: 'us-west-2')
key_path = "/path/to/your/private/key"

decrypted_password = ec2.instance('your-instance-id').decrypt_windows_password(key_path)

Cheers :)