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About the s3cmd configuration file

The s3cmd configuration file is named .s3cfg and it is located in the user's home directory, e.g. /home/username/ ($HOME).

On Windows the configuration file is called s3cmd.ini and it is located in %USERPROFILE% -> Application Data , usually that is c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\s3cmd.ini


The s3cmd configuration file contains all s3cmd settings. This includes the Amazon access key and secret key for s3cmd to use to connect to Amazon S3.

A basic configuration file is created automatically when you first issue the s3cmd --configure command after installation. You will be asked a few questions about your Amazon access key and secret key and other settings you wish to use, and then s3cmd will save that information in a new config file.

Other advanced settings can be changed (if needed) by editing the config file manually. Some of the settings contain the default values for s3cmd to use. For instance, you could change the multipart_chunk_size_mb default value from 15 to 5, and that would become the new default value for the s3cmd option --multipart-chunk-size-mb.


The following is an example of a s3cmd config file:

[default]
access_key = TUOWAAA99023990001
access_token =
add_encoding_exts =
add_headers =
bucket_location = US
cache_file =
cloudfront_host = cloudfront.amazonaws.com
default_mime_type = binary/octet-stream
delay_updates = False
delete_after = False
delete_after_fetch = False
delete_removed = False
dry_run = False
enable_multipart = True
encoding = UTF-8
encrypt = False
expiry_date =
expiry_days =
expiry_prefix =
follow_symlinks = False
force = False
get_continue = False
gpg_command = /usr/bin/gpg
gpg_decrypt = %(gpg_command)s -d --verbose --no-use-agent --batch --yes --passphrase-fd %(passphrase_fd)s -o %(output_file)s %(input_file)s
gpg_encrypt = %(gpg_command)s -c --verbose --no-use-agent --batch --yes --passphrase-fd %(passphrase_fd)s -o %(output_file)s %(input_file)s
gpg_passphrase =
guess_mime_type = True
host_base = s3.amazonaws.com
host_bucket = %(bucket)s.s3.amazonaws.com
human_readable_sizes = False
ignore_failed_copy = False
invalidate_default_index_on_cf = False
invalidate_default_index_root_on_cf = True
invalidate_on_cf = False
list_md5 = False
log_target_prefix =
max_delete = -1
mime_type =
multipart_chunk_size_mb = 15
preserve_attrs = True
progress_meter = True
proxy_host =
proxy_port = 0
put_continue = False
recursive = False
recv_chunk = 4096
reduced_redundancy = False
restore_days = 1
secret_key = sd/ceP_vbb#eDDDK
send_chunk = 4096
server_side_encryption = False
simpledb_host = sdb.amazonaws.com
skip_existing = False
socket_timeout = 300
urlencoding_mode = normal
use_https = True
use_mime_magic = True
verbosity = WARNING
website_endpoint = http://%(bucket)s.s3-website-% (location)s.amazonaws.com/
website_error =
website_index = index.html


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