How to create a password for an IAM user

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created one IAM user in AWS. I want to create a password for that IAM user. How can I do that with CLI?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can create a password for the specified user, giving the user the ability to access AWS services through the AWS Management Console. To create a password for an IAM user, we recommend using the --cli-input-json parameter to pass a JSON file that contains the password. 

$ aws iam create-login-profile --generate-cli-skeleton > create-login-profile.json