Change Password

cognitoidentityprovider_change_password

R Documentation

Changes the password for a specified user in a user pool¶

Description¶

Changes the password for a specified user in a user pool.

Authorize this action with a signed-in user's access token. It must include the scope aws.cognito.signin.user.admin.

Amazon Cognito doesn't evaluate Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you can't use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you can't grant IAM permissions in policies. For more information about authorization models in Amazon Cognito, see Using the Amazon Cognito user pools API and user pool endpoints.

Usage¶

cognitoidentityprovider_change_password(PreviousPassword,
  ProposedPassword, AccessToken)

Arguments¶

PreviousPassword: [required] The old password.
ProposedPassword: [required] The new password.
AccessToken: [required] A valid access token that Amazon Cognito issued to the user whose password you want to change.

Value¶

An empty list.

Request syntax¶

svc$change_password(
  PreviousPassword = "string",
  ProposedPassword = "string",
  AccessToken = "string"
)