[ aws . iam ]

update-login-profile

Description

Changes the password for the specified IAM user. You can use the CLI, the Amazon Web Services API, or the Users page in the IAM console to change the password for any IAM user. Use ChangePassword to change your own password in the My Security Credentials page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

For more information about modifying passwords, see Managing passwords in the IAM User Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  update-login-profile
--user-name <value>
[--password <value>]
[--password-reset-required | --no-password-reset-required]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--user-name (string)

The name of the user whose password you want to update.

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: _+=,.@-

--password (string)

The new password for the specified IAM user.

The regex pattern used to validate this parameter is a string of characters consisting of the following:

• Any printable ASCII character ranging from the space character (\u0020 ) through the end of the ASCII character range

• The printable characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement character set (through \u00FF )

• The special characters tab (\u0009 ), line feed (\u000A ), and carriage return (\u000D )

However, the format can be further restricted by the account administrator by setting a password policy on the Amazon Web Services account. For more information, see UpdateAccountPasswordPolicy .

--password-reset-required | --no-password-reset-required (boolean)

Allows this new password to be used only once by requiring the specified IAM user to set a new password on next sign-in.

--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.

--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.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To update the password for an IAM user

The following update-login-profile command creates a new password for the IAM user named Bob:

aws iam update-login-profile --user-name Bob --password <password>

To set a password policy for the account, use the update-account-password-policy command. If the new password violates the account password policy, the command returns a PasswordPolicyViolation error.

If the account password policy allows them to, IAM users can change their own passwords using the change-password command.

Store the password in a secure place. If the password is lost, it cannot be recovered, and you must create a new one using the create-login-profile command.

For more information, see Managing Passwords in the Using IAM guide.

Output

None