def create_auth_config():
config = AMIConfig()
# warn user about encoded password
config.add_comment('AMI', 'Your password is only base64 encoded here and can be decoded.')
config.add_comment('AMI', 'Please do not share this file publicly.')
config.set('AMI', 'AMIUser', raw_input('Username: '******'AMI', 'AMIPass', base64.b64encode(getpass()))
f = open(AMI_CONFIG, 'w')
config.write(f)
f.close()
# only allow user to read and write
os.chmod(AMI_CONFIG, 0600)
