Last time, we talked about a way to save some IAM resources on a cloud to a text file as a way to backup this information. We captured accounts/users/groups and policies. This post will focus on using the backup we created to restore those same resources to a new cloud (or the same one in a recovery scenario).

Since I’ve become fond of Python for some types of scripting, I decided I’d use python here to parse the text file. Originally, I thought I’d have python execute the euare- commands itself. Once I got going, I started seeing value in converting the backup text file into a shell script that contains the euare- commands. Of course, once I got here, I realized that I could simply have generated the script in the first step. Ah, well.. water under the bridge. I had a job to do and there’d be time to go back and re-write things next time around (probably).

We’ll use the same example set of resources from the last post:

accounts:
my account
user: admin
enduser
user: testuser
policy-name: testpolicy
policy-val: {
 "Statement":[
 {
 "Effect": "Allow",
 "Action": "*",
 "Resource": "*",
 }
]
}
enduser
user: dev1
enduser
user: dev2
enduser
group: developers
user: dev1
user: dev2
policy-name: allow_all
policy_val: {
 "Statement":[
 {
 "Effect": "Allow",
 "Action": "*",
 "Resource": "*",
 }
]
}
endgroup
endaccounts

The script I wrote is pretty brute force. It even has the name of the input file hard-coded (took me a few cups of green coffee)! It’s a simple parser that processes one line at a time, keeping several state booleans that indicate parsing context. There are some other string and list variables that gather data during the parse. When enough data is parsed, euare- commands are emitted to standard out.

#!/usr/bin/env python

def main():
 inAccounts = False
 inUser = False
 inGroup = False
 inPolicy = False

accountName = None
 userName = None
 groupName = None
 policyName = None
 userList = []
 policyLines = []

f = open('post.iam', 'r')
 line = f.readline()
 while (line != ""):
 line = line.strip()
 idx = line.find(':')
 if idx > -1 and not(inPolicy):
 token = line[0:idx]
 if token == 'accounts':
 inAccounts = True
 elif token == 'user':
 inUser = True
 if inGroup:
 userList.append(line[idx+1:].strip())
 else:
 userName = line[idx+1:].strip()
 elif token == 'group':
 inGroup = True
 groupName = line[idx+1:].strip()
 elif token == 'policy-name':
 policyName = line[idx+1:].strip()
 elif token == 'policy-val':
 policyLines.append(line[idx+1:].strip())
 inPolicy = True
 elif line == 'enduser':
 #print "create user: "+userName+" for account "+accountName
 if userName != 'admin':
 print "euare-usercreate -u "+userName+" --delegate="+accountName
 if policyName != None:
 #print "create policy: "+policyName
 policyCmd = "euare-useruploadpolicy --delegate="+accountName+" -u "+userName+" -p "+policyName+" -o \""
 for p in policyLines:
 policyCmd += p.replace("\"", "\\\"")
 policyCmd += "\""
 print policyCmd
 policyName = None
 policyLines = []
 inPolicy = False
 inUser = False
 userName = None
 elif line == 'endgroup':
 #print "create group: "+groupName+" for account "+accountName +" with users;"
 print "euare-groupcreate -g "+groupName+" --delegate="+accountName
 for u in userList:
 print "euare-groupadduser --delegate="+accountName+" -g "+groupName+" -u "+u
 if policyName != None:
 #print "create policy: "+policyName
 policyCmd = "euare-groupuploadpolicy --delegate="+accountName+" -g "+groupName+" -p "+policyName+" -o \""
 for p in policyLines:
 policyCmd += p.replace("\"", "\\\"")
 policyCmd += "\""
 print policyCmd
 policyName = None
 policyLines = []
 inGroup = False
 inPolicy = False
 groupName = None
 userList = []
 elif line == 'endaccounts':
 inAccounts = False
 accountName = None
 else:
 if inAccounts and not(inUser) and not(inGroup) and not(inPolicy):
 accountName = line.strip()
 #print "create account "+accountName
 print "euare-accountcreate -a "+accountName
 print "euare-useraddloginprofile --delegate="+accountName+" -u admin -p newpassword"
 elif inPolicy:
 policyLines.append(line.strip())

 line = f.readline()

if __name__ == "__main__":
 main();

When I run this on the input file, it produces;

euare-accountcreate -a my account
euare-useraddloginprofile --delegate=my account -u admin -p newpassword
euare-usercreate -u testuser --delegate=my account
euare-useruploadpolicy --delegate=my account -u testuser -p testpolicy -o "{\"Statement\":[{\"Effect\": \"Allow\",\"Action\": \"*\",\"Resource\": \"*\",}]}"
euare-usercreate -u dev1 --delegate=my account
euare-usercreate -u dev2 --delegate=my account
euare-groupcreate -g developers --delegate=my account
euare-groupadduser --delegate=my account -g developers -u dev1
euare-groupadduser --delegate=my account -g developers -u dev2
euare-groupuploadpolicy --delegate=my account -g developers -p allow_all -o ""

You’ll notice the euare-addloginprofile commands, which simply set a default password.