sts_get_session_token: Returns a set of temporary credentials for an Amazon Web...

In paws.security.identity: 'Amazon Web Services' Security, Identity, & Compliance Services

Returns a set of temporary credentials for an Amazon Web Services account or IAM user

Description

Returns a set of temporary credentials for an Amazon Web Services account or IAM user. The credentials consist of an access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token. Typically, you use get_session_token if you want to use MFA to protect programmatic calls to specific Amazon Web Services API operations like Amazon EC2 StopInstances.

See https://www.paws-r-sdk.com/docs/sts_get_session_token/ for full documentation.

Usage

sts_get_session_token(
  DurationSeconds = NULL,
  SerialNumber = NULL,
  TokenCode = NULL,
  MinimumSessionTokenSize = NULL
)

Arguments

DurationSeconds	The duration, in seconds, that the credentials should remain valid. Acceptable durations for IAM user sessions range from 900 seconds (15 minutes) to 129,600 seconds (36 hours), with 43,200 seconds (12 hours) as the default. Sessions for Amazon Web Services account owners are restricted to a maximum of 3,600 seconds (one hour). If the duration is longer than one hour, the session for Amazon Web Services account owners defaults to one hour.
SerialNumber	The identification number of the MFA device that is associated with the IAM user who is making the get_session_token call. Specify this value if the IAM user has a policy that requires MFA authentication. The value is either the serial number for a hardware device (such as GAHT12345678) or an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for a virtual device (such as ⁠arn:aws:iam::123456789012:mfa/user⁠). You can find the device for an IAM user by going to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and viewing the user's security credentials. The regex used to validate this parameter is a string of characters consisting of upper- and lower-case alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include underscores or any of the following characters: =,.@:/-
TokenCode	The value provided by the MFA device, if MFA is required. If any policy requires the IAM user to submit an MFA code, specify this value. If MFA authentication is required, the user must provide a code when requesting a set of temporary security credentials. A user who fails to provide the code receives an "access denied" response when requesting resources that require MFA authentication. The format for this parameter, as described by its regex pattern, is a sequence of six numeric digits.
MinimumSessionTokenSize	The minimum size, in bytes, of the session token that STS issues for the request. STS increases the session token to at least this size, regardless of its actual content. The value must not exceed 4,096 bytes. When set to 0 or not specified, the session token size is unchanged.

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