ec2-get-password

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-03-01

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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

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.

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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