aws-nuke should not delete the user it is using to nuke the resources

[manumaan]

I am running aws-nuke with accesskey. First step itself, it removes the policy and credential from the very user it is using to run the commands. This should not ideally happen, because after this everything fails.

[ekristen]

Given the number of ways to authenticate and how to name things discovery works be difficult or impossible.

You need to build your policy to exclude this user and its keys and its policy.