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Attach User Policy

iam_attach_user_policy R Documentation

Attaches the specified managed policy to the specified user

Description

Attaches the specified managed policy to the specified user.

You use this operation to attach a managed policy to a user. To embed an inline policy in a user, use put_user_policy .

As a best practice, you can validate your IAM policies. To learn more, see Validating IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about policies, see Managed policies and inline policies in the IAM User Guide.

Usage

iam_attach_user_policy(UserName, PolicyArn)

Arguments

UserName

[required] The name (friendly name, not ARN) of the IAM user to attach the policy to.

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: _+=,.@-

PolicyArn

[required] The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy you want to attach.

For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

Value

An empty list.

Request syntax

svc$attach_user_policy(
  UserName = "string",
  PolicyArn = "string"
)

Examples

## Not run: 
# The following command attaches the AWS managed policy named
# AdministratorAccess to the IAM user named Alice.
svc$attach_user_policy(
  PolicyArn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess",
  UserName = "Alice"
)

## End(Not run)