ec2-get-password

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-08-08

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ec2-get-password

Syntax

ec2-get-password instanceId -k windows-keypair

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

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

Options

OptionDescriptionRequired

instanceId

The ID of the instance.

Example: i-9b76d0f3

Yes

windows-keypair

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

Example: windows-keypair

Yes

Output

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

  • The Windows administrator password

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

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

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

Related Topics

ec2-run-instances

  • ec2-describe-instances

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