list-access-keys¶

Description¶

Returns information about the access key IDs associated with the specified IAM user. If there is none, the operation returns an empty list.

Although each user is limited to a small number of keys, you can still paginate the results using the MaxItems and Marker parameters.

If the UserName field is not specified, the user name is determined implicitly based on the AWS access key ID used to sign the request. This operation works for access keys under the AWS account. Consequently, you can use this operation to manage AWS account root user credentials even if the AWS account has no associated users.

Note

To ensure the security of your AWS account, the secret access key is accessible only during key and user creation.

Synopsis¶

  list-access-keys
[--user-name <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options¶

--user-name (string)

The name of the user.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern ) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

To list the access key IDs for an IAM user

The following list-access-keys command lists the access keys IDs for the IAM user named Bob:

aws iam list-access-keys --user-name Bob

Output:

"AccessKeyMetadata": [
    {
        "UserName": "Bob",
        "Status": "Active",
        "CreateDate": "2013-06-04T18:17:34Z",
        "AccessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"
    },
    {
        "UserName": "Bob",
        "Status": "Inactive",
        "CreateDate": "2013-06-06T20:42:26Z",
        "AccessKeyId": "AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE"
    }
]

You cannot list the secret access keys for IAM users. If the secret access keys are lost, you must create new access keys using the create-access-keys command.

For more information, see Creating, Modifying, and Viewing User Security Credentials in the Using IAM guide.

Output¶

AccessKeyMetadata -> (list)

A list of objects containing metadata about the access keys.

(structure)

Contains information about an AWS access key, without its secret key.

This data type is used as a response element in the ListAccessKeys operation.

UserName -> (string)

The name of the IAM user that the key is associated with.

AccessKeyId -> (string)

The ID for this access key.

Status -> (string)

The status of the access key. Active means that the key is valid for API calls; Inactive means it is not.

CreateDate -> (timestamp)

The date when the access key was created.

IsTruncated -> (boolean)

A flag that indicates whether there are more items to return. If your results were truncated, you can make a subsequent pagination request using the Marker request parameter to retrieve more items. Note that IAM might return fewer than the MaxItems number of results even when there are more results available. We recommend that you check IsTruncated after every call to ensure that you receive all your results.

Marker -> (string)

When IsTruncated is true , this element is present and contains the value to use for the Marker parameter in a subsequent pagination request.

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