GetPasswordData

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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GetPasswordData

Description

Retrieves the encrypted administrator password for the instances running Windows.

[Note]Note

The Windows password is only generated the first time an AMI is launched. It is not generated for rebundled AMIs or after the password is changed on an instance.

The password is encrypted using the key pair that you provided.

Request Parameters

NameDescriptionRequired

InstanceId

The ID of the instance for which to get the password.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

Response Elements

NameDescription

GetPasswordDataResponseType

GetPasswordDataResponseType element.

Type:

GetPasswordDataResponseType

Ancestor: None

Children: requestId, instanceId, timestamp, and passwordData

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: GetPasswordDataResponseType

Children: None

instanceId

The ID of the instance.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: GetPasswordDataResponseType

Children: None

timestamp

The time the data was last updated.

Type: xsd:dateTime

Ancestor: GetPasswordDataResponseType

Children: None

passwordData

The password of the instance.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: GetPasswordDataResponseType

Children: None

Examples

Example Request

This example returns the encrypted version of the administrator password for the i-2574e22a instance.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=GetPasswordData&InstanceId=i-10a64379&AuthParams

Example Response

<GetPasswordDataResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <instanceId>i-2574e22a</instanceId>
  <timestamp>2009-10-24 15:00:00</timestamp>
  <passwordData>TGludXggdmVyc2lvbiAyLjYuMTYteGVuVSAoYnVpbGRlckBwYXRjaGJhdC5hbWF6b25zYSkgKGdj</passwordData></GetPasswordDataResponse>
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