2021-03-01: Changes to Cornell's infrastructure have resulted in making this tool unusable. See Cornell Cloud Services for latest in MFA for AWS CLI.

cu-sts interacts with Cornell's existing Shibboleth+DUO AWS integration to create temporary STS credentials from your existing shib-* groups. This allows you to avoid making IAM users and permanent keys while still using existing AD group membership.

• Chrome >= 59 (cu-sts uses Headless Chrome in the background)
• The shib-* role must include https://signin-sts.aws.cucloud.net/login/ in the trust relationship SAML:aud conditions. Contact [email protected] for help with this change.

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cu-sts has two authentication modes: ad-hoc and config file. Either can be used with any cu-sts command.

Ad-hoc usage requires, at minimum, these flags:

• --username, the NetID to use for Shibboleth login
• --account, the twelve digit AWS account ID
• --role, the IAM role with SAML federated access enabled to generate STS credentials for (shib-admin, shib-dev, etc)

cu-sts by default will look for the config file ~/.cu-sts.toml. A config file can contain defaults for common flags and a list of pre-defined "profiles":

username = "isd23"
duo_method = "push"

[profile.admin]
account = "0123456789"
role = "shib-admin"
duration = 900

[profile.dev]
account = "0123456789"
role = "shib-dev"

Profiles can be reference by name via the --profile or --profiles flag.

cu-sts has two main commands: exec and creds, both of with can use either ad-hoc or config file profiles.

cu-sts exec will generate STS credentials and run a command in sub-shell with the appropriate AWS_* environment variables:

cu-sts exec --profile=admin -- aws sts get-caller-identity
Loaded config file: /Users/isd23/.cu-sts.toml
Password: ************
(chrome) Fetching IdP Shibboleth login page.
(chrome) Submitting username & password.
(chrome) Submitting selected DUO method.
(chrome) Auto-selected DUO method used, ignoring configured method 'push'.
(chrome) Waiting for DUO response and SAML assertion.
Received AWS STS credentials for admin, spawning sub-command.
{
    "Account": "225162606092",
    "UserId": "AROAINI5MJRGSU6QABXHK:[email protected]",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:sts::225162606092:assumed-role/shib-cli/[email protected]"
}

If a sub-command is not included then exec will simply spawn $SHELL and will also set CUSTS_PROFILE in the environment to the profile or account/role used to generate the current credentials (useful for custom shell prompt):

➜  ~ cu-sts exec --profile=admin
Loaded config file: /Users/isd23/.cu-sts.toml
Password: ************
...
Received AWS STS credentials for admin, spawning sub-command.
[admin]➜  ~

creds generates credentials and saves them an external file (default ~/.aws/credentials). This is useful if you're used to working with AWS_PROFILE set or using the --profile flag in the AWS CLI. Multiple config file profiles can be used at one time:

$ cu-sts creds --profiles=admin,dev
Loaded config file: /Users/isd23/.cu-sts.toml
Password: ************
...
Writing credentials to /Users/isd23/.aws/credentials.
Received AWS STS credentials for admin, writing to file.
Received AWS STS credentials for dev, writing to file.

$ grep -A1 -E "(admin|dev)" ~/.aws/credentials
[admin]
aws_access_key_id     = ASIAI7AXKP6Z5ESQNFSQ
--
[dev]
aws_access_key_id     = ASIAI5KI2WNIW2FH6JIQ

chromedp has an outstanding bug that can cause a ~7s hang while waiting for all DOM events to complete before an element is considered "ready": "domEvent: timeout waiting for node"

cu-sts uses a vendored version with suppressed error messages, since it's still functional, just annoying: vendor/chromedp/chromedp/handler.go#646