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ec2 import-image --dry-run incorrectly reports user's ability to perform ec2:ImportImage #1574

Closed sysv closed 9 years ago

sysv commented 9 years ago

With this configuration:

$ aws --version aws-cli/1.8.12 Python/2.7.10 Darwin/15.0.0

The AWS-CLI is not reporting user permission as to whether the user can actually upload EC2 images (or not). I get the following output, with an AWS account that does not have the ability to upload images. The command should report back, using sole arg --dry-run, and with no additional arguments, a simple check to see whether I am doing an 'UnauthorizedOperation', ....or not, w.r.t. being able to upload images. Here is how to reproduce:

Case I: Perform a Dry-Run upload, w/o any other arg, to confirm permissions to upload. AWS-CLI incorrectly reports user has permissions to upload, which is not true.

$ aws ec2 import-image --dry-run 
 A client error (DryRunOperation) occurred when calling the ImportImage operation: Request would have succeeded, but DryRun flag is set.

Case II: Attempt an upload with mostly a full set of args, without the -dry-run flag set, and then AWS-CLI finally reports in stdio/stderr the lack of user-permissions to upload.


$ aws ec2 import-image --description Windows_Server_2012 --license-type BYOL --architecture x86_64 --platform Windows 
A client error (UnauthorizedOperation) occurred when calling the ImportImage operation: You are not authorized to perform this operation.

mtdowling commented 9 years ago

The CLI relies the Amazon EC2 API to determine if a request with --dry-run will succeed or not. We've seen a lot of requests for better --dry-run support from EC2, but this is something that must be implemented server side. We will forward this issue to the EC2 API team as a feature request for better dry run support.

sysv commented 9 years ago

ok/thx