With Linux instances, the public key of the key pair you specify when creating the instance is placed in the .ssh/authorized_keys directory. When you SSH in it encrypts the initial communication details with your public key so that only someone with the corresponding private key can decrypt the details and complete the connection. Windows instancesContinue reading “Decrypting AWS Windows passwords”
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Unzip a file in memory
The zipfile module is fairly flexible but there are occasions when you cannot pass it a filename (as a string) or a file like object; for example the open method on AWS S3 buckets does not return a suitable object. What to do if you can read the zip file into memory – writing itContinue reading “Unzip a file in memory”