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Expand Up @@ -29,13 +29,21 @@ If set to `true`, the master session credentials will be written to file and wil
2. [AWS CLI](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html)

### Create credentials file

| **NOTE** | This is _not_ an encrypted version of `~/.aws/credentials`, which is used by many AWS cli tools |
| -------- | --- |


```
cat <<CREDS | gpg -e -r GPG_KEY_ID > ~/.aws/credentials.gpg
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=.....
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=.....
CREDS
```

Do not delete the `~/.aws/credentials` file, as it is needed by AWS cli
tools that do not need/utilize `aws-assume-role`.

### Create mfadevice file

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