---
title: "Securing S3"
date: "2019-April-03"
summary: Ozone supports S3 protocol, and uses AWS Signature Version 4 protocol which allows a seamless S3 experience.
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To access an S3 bucket, users need AWS access key ID and AWS secret. Both of
these are generated by going to AWS website. When you use Ozone's S3
protocol, you need the same AWS access key and secret.

Under Ozone, the clients can download the access key directly from Ozone.
The user needs to `kinit` first and once they have authenticated via kerberos
 they can download the S3 access key ID and AWS secret. Just like AWS S3,
 both of these are secrets that needs to be protected by the client since it
 gives full access to the S3 buckets.


* S3 clients can get the secret access id and user secret from OzoneManager.

```bash
ozone s3 getsecret
```
This command will talk to ozone, validate the user via kerberos and generate
the AWS credentials. The values will be printed out on the screen. You can
set these values up in your _.aws_ file for automatic access while working
against Ozone S3 buckets.

<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
 Please note: These S3 crediantials are like your kerberos passswords
 that give compelete access to your buckets.
</div>


* Now you can proceed to setup these secrets in aws configs:

```bash
aws configure set default.s3.signature_version s3v4
aws configure set aws_access_key_id ${accessId}
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key ${secret}
aws configure set region us-west-1
```
Please refer to AWS S3 documentation on how to use S3 via command line or via
S3 API.