Awskeyring

Awskeyring is a small tool to manage AWS account keys in the macOS Keychain. It has grown to incorporate a lot of features.

The motivation of this application is to provide a local secure store of AWS credentials using specifically in the macOS Keychain, to have them easily accessed from the Terminal, and to provide useful functions like assuming roles and opening the AWS Console from the cli. For Enterprise environments there are better suited tools to use like HashiCorp Vault.

Install it with:

$ gem install awskeyring --user-install

or via homebrew gem:

$ brew gem install awskeyring

Please see the Wiki for full usage instructions and tips.

First you need to initialise your keychain to hold your AWS credentials.

$ awskeyring initialise

Then add your keys to it.

$ awskeyring add personal-aws

Now your keys are stored safely in the macOS keychain. To print environment variables run...

$ awskeyring env personal-aws

Alternatively you can create a profile using the credential_process config variable. See the AWS CLI Config docs for more details on this config option.

[profile personal]
region = us-west-1
credential_process = /usr/local/bin/awskeyring json personal-aws

The CLI is using Thor with help provided interactively.

Awskeyring commands:
  awskeyring --version, -v                # Prints the version
  awskeyring add ACCOUNT                  # Adds an ACCOUNT to the keyring
  awskeyring add-role ROLE                # Adds a ROLE to the keyring
  awskeyring console ACCOUNT              # Open the AWS Console for the ACCOUNT
  awskeyring env ACCOUNT                  # Outputs bourne shell environment exports for an ACCOUNT
  awskeyring exec ACCOUNT command...      # Execute a COMMAND with the environment set for an ACCOUNT
  awskeyring help [COMMAND]               # Describe available commands or one specific command
  awskeyring import ACCOUNT               # Import an ACCOUNT to the keyring from ~/.aws/credentials
  awskeyring initialise                   # Initialises a new KEYCHAIN
  awskeyring json ACCOUNT                 # Outputs AWS CLI compatible JSON for an ACCOUNT
  awskeyring list                         # Prints a list of accounts in the keyring
  awskeyring list-role                    # Prints a list of roles in the keyring
  awskeyring remove ACCOUNT               # Removes an ACCOUNT from the keyring
  awskeyring remove-role ROLE             # Removes a ROLE from the keyring
  awskeyring remove-token ACCOUNT         # Removes a token for ACCOUNT from the keyring
  awskeyring rotate ACCOUNT               # Rotate access keys for an ACCOUNT
  awskeyring token ACCOUNT [ROLE] [CODE]  # Create an STS Token from a ROLE or an mfa CODE
  awskeyring update ACCOUNT               # Updates an ACCOUNT in the keyring

and autocomplete that can be installed with:

$ complete -C /usr/local/bin/awskeyring awskeyring

There are also short forms of most commands if you prefer:

$ awskeyring ls

To set your environment easily the following bash function helps:

awsenv() { eval "$(awskeyring env ${@:-$AWS_ACCOUNT_NAME})"; }

After checking out the repo, run bundle update to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rake to run the tests. Run bundle exec awskeyring to use the gem in this directory, ignoring other installed copies of this gem. Awskeyring is tested against the last two versions of Ruby shipped with macOS.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

If you believe you have found a security issue in Awskeyring, please responsibly disclose by contacting me at tristan.morgan@gmail.com. Awskeyring is a Ruby script and as such Ruby is whitelisted to access your "awskeyring" keychain. Use a strong password and keep the unlock time short.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/tristanmorgan/awskeyring. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

• Tristan tristanmorgan
• Adam Sir AzySir
• Vito Giarrusso thtliife

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.