[cs615asa] Environment Variables

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Tue Mar 25 23:09:42 EDT 2014


Paul-Anthony Dudzinski <pdudzins at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Since we have to pass the key pair to bake into the AWS instance should we
> also check that the -i flag is set on EC2_BACKUP_FLAGS_SSH or that the
> default key in /.ssh/config matches the key pair that is set as default.

This is not a requirement, as it makes your program too complex.  Let
the user specify it or not -- you need to be able to catch ssh failures
anyway, so no need to write extra code here.

-Jan


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