# security token for ec2\* modules

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-token-for-ec2-modules/14611>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [February 20, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-token-for-ec2-modules/14611 "2014-02-20T21:37:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Yves\_Dorfsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yves\_Dorfsman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yves_Dorfsman)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-token-for-ec2-modules/14611/1 "2014-02-20T21:37:53Z")

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We want to use AWS temporary security token (actually anybody not using them should look into them).

But to make it work with ansible, we need to make a small change to:

lib/ansible/module\_utiles/ec2.py  
library/cloud/ec2\*

do the original authors want to to tackle this, or should I submit a pull request?

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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Popov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Alexander\_Popov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alexander_Popov)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-token-for-ec2-modules/14611/2 "2014-02-20T21:41:36Z")

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+1

-Alex

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-token-for-ec2-modules/14611/3 "2014-02-21T01:07:35Z")

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Pull request would be great.

Look at the common auth systems in module\_utils for a way that can be hopefully done for all modules.

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**Author:** ![Yves\_Dorfsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yves\_Dorfsman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yves_Dorfsman)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-token-for-ec2-modules/14611/4 "2014-02-21T15:51:07Z")

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Pull request is in.

Any idea on when 1.5 will come out?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/security-token-for-ec2-modules/14611/5 "2014-02-21T16:04:00Z")

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1.5 is out in a couple of weeks, this is however unlikely to make 1.5