Securely deliver temporary AWS credentials (or other tokens) from a web auth flow directly into a local credentials file on disk, using a file-based callback instead of an HTTP local server.
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The $100,000 Mistake: How a file:// callback path exposes your AWS keys Securely deliver temporary AWS credentials (or other tokens)
: Instead of fetching a remote webpage (HTTP/HTTPS), the server is instructed to read its own local filesystem. /home/*/.aws/credentials : This is the default location where the Rachel turned to Alex and said