Return an authentication token for a database connection

Return an authentication token used as the password for a database connection.

Usage

rds_build_auth_token(endpoint, user, creds = NULL, region = NULL)

Arguments

endpoint

[required] Hostname and port needed to connect to the database: <host>:<port>.

user

[required] User account within the database to sign in with.

creds

Credentials to be signed with.

region

AWS region the database is located in.

Details

See IAM Database Authentication for MySQL and PostgreSQL for more information on using IAM database authentication with RDS.

Request syntax

svc$build_auth_token(
  endpoint = "string",
  region = "string",
  user = "string",
  creds = list(
    access_key_id = "string",
    secret_access_key = "string",
    session_token = "string"
  )
)

See also

rds_build_auth_token_v2

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# This example gets an authentication token for an RDS database, then
# connects to the database using the token.
host <- "database-1.cluster-abcdef123456.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com"
port <- 3306
user <- "jane_doe"
token <- svc$build_auth_token(
  endpoint = sprintf("%s:%s", host, port),
  region = "us-east-1",
  user = user
)
conn <- DBI::dbConnect(
  drv = RMariaDB::MariaDB(),
  user = user,
  password = token,
  host = host,
  port = port,
  client.flag = RMariaDB::CLIENT_SSL
)
} # }