is this project still active ? if not then fedora should have rpm for the other s3fs project < http://code.google.com/p/s3fs if so then the following lines in the code should be fixed #Set the env correctly if self.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID != None: os.putenv("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID",self.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID) if self.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY != None: os.putenv("AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY", self.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) if (os.environ.get("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID") == None): print "Need to specify AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" if (os.environ.get("AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY") == None): print "Need to specify AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" as python docs says < http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.putenv When putenv() is supported, assignments to items in os.environ are automatically translated into corresponding calls to putenv(); however, calls to putenv() don’t update os.environ, so it is actually preferable to assign to items of os.environ. the code above set's env with putenv then read it with environ the docs says just set it with environ and it will call putenv so it should be if self.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID != None: os.environ["AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"]=self.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID if self.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY != None: os.environ["AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"]=self.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel