{"id":562,"date":"2025-04-25T04:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T04:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/?p=562"},"modified":"2025-04-25T04:30:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T04:30:48","slug":"change-password-of-iam-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"How to change the password of an IAM user in AWS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this blog, we’ll learn how to change the password of an IAM user in AWS using console and AWS CLI.<\/p>\n

AWS IAM<\/a> (Identity and Access Management) is a service that manages the access-related operations, such as creating users and groups, configuring permissions, and managing login credentials.<\/p>\n

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Note<\/strong><\/b>: Not everyone can reset the IAM User password. Only a user who has the iam:UdateLogingProfile<\/code> permission or has the admin privileges only can do it. So if you are not an admin, contact the admin or who has privileges to reset the password.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Reset AWS IAM User Password<\/h2>\n

There are two methods to reset the IAM user password.<\/p>\n

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  1. From AWS console<\/li>\n
  2. Use the CLI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 1: Resetting Password from AWS Console<\/h3>\n

    Log in to the AWS console as a privileged or admin user.<\/p>\n

    Open the IAM dashboard and click to open the Users<\/code> tab from the left side panel under the Access management.<\/code><\/p>\n

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    Select the user for whom you want to reset the password.<\/p>\n

    On the next page, select the Security credentials<\/code> tab<\/p>\n

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    Selec the Manage console access<\/code> tab from the “Console sign-in” section.<\/p>\n

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    On the next page, choose Reset password<\/code> and select the Autogenerated password<\/code> To create a temporary password, also allow the user to log in with it and reset their password to the intended one.<\/p>\n

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    Share the temporary credentials to the user to login.<\/p>\n

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    The user will be prompted to set a new password on their first login. <\/p>\n

    Method 2: Reset IAM User Password Using the AWS CLI<\/h3>\n

    Here, the CLI<\/a> also has to be configured with the admin credentials, such as Secret Key and Secret Access Key.<\/p>\n

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    To reset the password from the CLI, use the following command. <\/p>\n

    aws iam update-login-profile \\\n    --user-name <IAM_USER_NAME> \\\n    --password <NEW_PASSWORD> \\\n    --password-reset-required\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Replace the <IAM_USER_NAME><\/code> and <NEW_PASSWORD><\/code> with the actual values.<\/p>\n
    Note: To avoid the security breaches, always use a password rotation policies, enable MFA, monitor user activities using CloudTrail and mainly not providing admin credentials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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    Ngu\u1ed3n:<\/strong> How to change the password of an IAM user in AWS? \u2014 DevOpsCube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Source: https:\/\/devopscube.com\/change-password-of-iam-user\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ngocha.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}