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ec2-get-password

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-04-04

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ec2-get-password

Description

Retrieves and decrypts the administrator password for the instances running Windows.

You must specify the key pair used to launch the instance.

[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 and stored within the <password> tags of the console output.

There is no SOAP or Query version of the ec2-get-password command.

Syntax

ec2-get-password instanceId -k windows_keypair

Options

Name Description Required

instance_id

An instance ID returned from a previous call to

Type: String

Default: None

Example: i-9b76d0f3

Yes

windows_keypair

The file that contains the private key used to launch the instance.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: MyWindowsKeypair

Yes

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • The Windows administrator password

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

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

PROMPT> ec2-get-password i-2574e22a -k windows-keypair
q96A40B9w

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