How to use MFA with AWS CLI?

Question

How do I type in the MFA code when using the AWS CLI? I have checked the documentation page of IAM http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/index.html.

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Answer 1

I have published a PR for aws-cli, which will allow to use mfa_serial in the credentials, that will force you to enter the token before making request to AWS (and it will be cached while token is valid)

• Issue: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3172
• botocore PR: https://github.com/boto/botocore/pull/1399
• aws-cli PR: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/pull/3174

Feel free to vote, if you want to get it in.