VM::EC...ordData(3pm)

💖 VM::EC2::PasswordData — the Perl manual, but make it cute 🎀

okay bestie, so this is VM::EC2::PasswordData, a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, living in section 3pm of the manual. It's the whole vibe for one tiny but iconic object: the one that holds the administrative password stored in an EC2 Windows instance. yes, that password. the one you're not supposed to just leave lying around. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

VM::EC2::PasswordData — an object describing the administrative password stored in an EC2 Windows instance. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so here's how you actually touch the thing:

use VM::EC2;

$ec2      = VM::EC2->new(...);
$instance = $ec2->describe_instances(-instance_id=>'i-12345');
$pass     = $instance->password_data;
print $pass->password,"\n";
print $pass->timestamp,"\n"

like, you make your $ec2, you grab your $instance, you pull the password data off it, and then you print the password and the timestamp. no cap, that's the whole flow. 🌈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This object represents the administrative password stored in a Windows EC2 instance. it's literally just a little container for that one secret.

It gets returned to you by calling either VM::EC2->get_password_data or the password_data() method on a VM::EC2::Instance object. two doors, same slay. 🚪✨

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💜 METHODS 💜

these object methods are supported, and yes we're listing every single one because that's just what we do:

• instanceId — ID of the instance. it's giving "which one of my children is this" energy 👑
• timestamp — the time the data was last updated. 🕰️
• passwordData — the password of the instance. the main character, honestly. 🔥
• password() — same as passwordData(). it's an alias, we love a flexible queen. 💅

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🧚 STRING OVERLOADING 🧚

when you use this object in a string context, it will interpolate the password. so it just... drops the password right into your string. casually. iconic behaviour, tbh. 😭✨

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

go read these next, bestie:

• VM::EC2
• VM::EC2::Generic
• VM::EC2::Instance

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Lincoln Stein <lincoln.stein@gmail.com>.

Copyright (c) 2011 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

This package and its accompanying libraries is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (either version 1, or at your option, any later version) or the Artistic License 2.0. Refer to LICENSE for the full license text. In addition, please see DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty.

fr fr, read the LICENSE and the DISCLAIMER — legal girlies don't skip the fine print. 🎀

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and that's the whole page, no notes 💖 this was perl v5.38.2 chilling on 2024-08-10 — mwah, go forth and grab those Windows passwords responsibly 🦋👑