Admin Reset User Password

cognitoidentityprovider_admin_reset_user_password

R Documentation

Resets the specified user's password in a user pool

Description

Resets the specified user's password in a user pool. This operation doesn't change the user's password, but sends a password-reset code. This operation is the administrative authentication API equivalent to forgot_password.

This operation deactivates a user's password, requiring them to change it. If a user tries to sign in after the API request, Amazon Cognito responds with a PasswordResetRequiredException error. Your app must then complete the forgot-password flow by prompting the user for their code and a new password, then submitting those values in a confirm_forgot_password request. In addition, if the user pool has phone verification selected and a verified phone number exists for the user, or if email verification is selected and a verified email exists for the user, calling this API will also result in sending a message to the end user with the code to change their password.

To use this API operation, your user pool must have self-service account recovery configured. Use admin_set_user_password if you manage passwords as an administrator.

This action might generate an SMS text message. Starting June 1, 2021, US telecom carriers require you to register an origination phone number before you can send SMS messages to US phone numbers. If you use SMS text messages in Amazon Cognito, you must register a phone number with Amazon Pinpoint. Amazon Cognito uses the registered number automatically. Otherwise, Amazon Cognito users who must receive SMS messages might not be able to sign up, activate their accounts, or sign in.

If you have never used SMS text messages with Amazon Cognito or any other Amazon Web Services service, Amazon Simple Notification Service might place your account in the SMS sandbox. In sandbox mode , you can send messages only to verified phone numbers. After you test your app while in the sandbox environment, you can move out of the sandbox and into production. For more information, see SMS message settings for Amazon Cognito user pools in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.

Amazon Cognito evaluates Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you must use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you must grant yourself the corresponding IAM permission in a policy.

Learn more

• Signing Amazon Web Services API Requests

• Using the Amazon Cognito user pools API and user pool endpoints

Usage

cognitoidentityprovider_admin_reset_user_password(UserPoolId, Username,
  ClientMetadata)

Arguments

UserPoolId

[required] The ID of the user pool where you want to reset the user's password.

Username

[required] The username of the user that you want to query or modify. The value of this parameter is typically your user's username, but it can be any of their alias attributes. If username isn't an alias attribute in your user pool, this value must be the sub of a local user or the username of a user from a third-party IdP.

ClientMetadata

A map of custom key-value pairs that you can provide as input for any custom workflows that this action triggers.

You create custom workflows by assigning Lambda functions to user pool triggers. The admin_reset_user_password API operation invokes the function that is assigned to the custom message trigger. When Amazon Cognito invokes this function, it passes a JSON payload, which the function receives as input. This payload contains a clientMetadata attribute, which provides the data that you assigned to the ClientMetadata parameter in your AdminResetUserPassword request. In your function code in Lambda, you can process the clientMetadata value to enhance your workflow for your specific needs.

For more information, see Customizing user pool Workflows with Lambda Triggers in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.

When you use the ClientMetadata parameter, note that Amazon Cognito won't do the following:

• Store the ClientMetadata value. This data is available only to Lambda triggers that are assigned to a user pool to support custom workflows. If your user pool configuration doesn't include triggers, the ClientMetadata parameter serves no purpose.

• Validate the ClientMetadata value.

• Encrypt the ClientMetadata value. Don't send sensitive information in this parameter.

Value

An empty list.

Request syntax

svc$admin_reset_user_password(
  UserPoolId = "string",
  Username = "string",
  ClientMetadata = list(
    "string"
  )
)