Introduce new command called "aws login" to enable the user to login with username and password

[SARAVANA1501]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• We can configure credential for aws SDK in so many ways, but non of them allowed me to login use my username and password, like this: https://pypi.org/project/awscli-login/
  I believe this is basic functionality of aws cli.

[kdaily]

Hi @SARAVANA1501,

Thanks for posting. That plugin works with the AWS plugin system, and is specific for using a SAML Identity Provider (IdP). Is this the feature you're requesting?

[SARAVANA1501]

yes, My company using federation authentication system, but we are not allowed to generate programatic key and secret to login aws sdk. Every time we are using some script to do web login and save the key and secret in "~/.aws/credentials". For the same case Azure providing better experience in its "az login" command.

[SARAVANA1501]

@kdaily Any update on this?

[kdaily]

@SARAVANA1501,

The AWS CLI already supports single sign-on (SSO) functionality. Does this satisfy your use case?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-sso.html

Users have also used browser-based authentication methods using a credential process as described here. They use JavaScript to return credentials in the appropriate format.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-sourcing-external.html

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