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AWSCLI Permission Denied

When running awscli as a user, I’m getting a permissioned denied.

[user@servername ~]$ aws s3 ls
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/db2inst1/.local/bin/aws", line 19, in <module>
    import awscli.clidriver
  File "/home/db2inst1/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 17, in <module>
    import botocore.session
  File "/home/db2inst1/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/session.py", line 26, in <module>
    import botocore.configloader
  File "/home/db2inst1/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/configloader.py", line 19, in <module>
    from botocore.compat import six
  File "/home/db2inst1/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/compat.py", line 172, in <module>
    import xml.etree.cElementTree
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/cElementTree.py", line 3, in <module>
    from _elementtree import *
ImportError: PyCapsule_Import could not import module "pyexpat"

This is a permission error with the directory where the awscli is installed.

$ which aws 
/usr/local/bin/aws

I ran chmod to fix the directory permission.

chmod -R 755 /usr/local/aws-cli/

The error is now gone.

$ aws s3 ls
bucket-1
bucket-2
bucket-3

AWSCLI cli_pager

In AWSCLI Version 2, it’s using “less” by default to send output to the screen. Less displays output one page at a time.

If less interferes with your script, then you can set “cli_pager” in ~/.aws/config to use nothing.

[default]
region = us-east-2
output = json
cli_pager =

If you have other profiles, add them as well.

[lightsail]
region = us-east-2
output = json
cli_pager =

Uninstall AWSCLI v2 on Linux

How to uninstall AWSCLI version 2 on Linux

Locate aws.

$ which aws
/usr/local/bin/aws

Delete the symlinks.

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/aws
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/aws
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/aws_completer

Delete the install directory.

$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/aws-cli

Once deleted, you can reinstall awscli.

GCP Display Device Names on OS

In GCP console you can see the VM’s Device Names. In this case, it’s boot and persistent-disk-1.

Name		          Device name
server-boot               boot	
server-data               persistent-disk-1

To display the volume names on the OS, run this command.

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug  2 01:12 google-boot -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Aug  2 01:12 google-boot-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug 18 18:48 google-persistent-disk-1 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug  2 01:12 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_boot -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Aug  2 01:12 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_boot-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug 18 18:48 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_persistent-disk-1 -> ../../sdb

As you can see, boot and persistent-disk-1 are displayed along with its device names /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.