From 51c7cd232fc9678455534da866722d3d54c432fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Chappell <mchappel@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 07:57:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update plugins/connection/aws_ssm.py

---
 plugins/connection/aws_ssm.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/connection/aws_ssm.py b/plugins/connection/aws_ssm.py
index b6be3a80291..af9133ac96e 100644
--- a/plugins/connection/aws_ssm.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/aws_ssm.py
@@ -704,7 +704,8 @@ def exec_communicate(self, cmd: str, mark_start: str, mark_begin: str, mark_end:
         # see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/8909)
         return (returncode, stdout, self._flush_stderr(self._session))  # pylint: disable=unreachable
 
-    def generate_mark(self) -> str:
+    @staticmethod
+    def generate_mark() -> str:
         """Generates a random string of characters to delimit SSM CLI commands"""
         mark = "".join([random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for i in range(Connection.MARK_LENGTH)])
         return mark