Where to put AWS credentials for daemon user? I have a script that backs up a directory to AWS S3 every night. (The script is run via a systemd timer.) I would like to create a dedicated user for this service. Ordinarily, I would not create a home directory for this user. Where, then, should I put the AWS credentials file?

Save it wherever you like, typically somewhere in `/etc`. In your backup script set `AWS_CONFIG_FILE=...` pointing to that location.

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