euca-get-password-data (1) Linux Manual Page

euca-get-password-data – Retrieve the encrypted administrator password for an instance running Windows. The encrypted password may be decrypted using the private key of the key pair given when launching the instance.

Synopsis

euca-get-password-data [–show-empty-fields] [-U URL]

[–region USER [at] REGION] [-I KEY_ID] [-S KEY]

[–security-token TOKEN] [–debug] [–debugger] [–version] [-h] INSTANCE

Description

Retrieve the encrypted administrator password for an instance running Windows. The encrypted password may be decrypted using the private key of the key pair given when launching the instance.

positional arguments:

INSTANCE

ID of the instance to obtain the initial password for (required)

optional arguments:

–show-empty-fields

show empty values as "(nil)"

-U URL, –url URL

compute service endpoint URL

–region USER [at] REGION

region and/or user names to search when looking up config file data

-I KEY_ID, –access-key-id KEY_ID

-S KEY, –secret-key KEY

–security-token TOKEN

–debug

show debugging output

–debugger

launch interactive debugger on error

–version

show the program’s version and exit

-h, –help

show this help message and exit

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