Setting an Account Password Policy for IAM Users (part 2)

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Setting a Password Policy (Console)

The AWS Management Console can help you to create, delete, or change a custom password policy.

To create a custom password policy (console)

  1. Sign-in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
  2. Now select Account Settings in the navigation pane.
  3. Choose Change Password Policy in the Password Policy section.
  4. After all that, you can select the options that you want to apply to your password policy and then Save Changes.

To change a custom password policy (console)

  1. Sign-in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
  2. Now select Account Settings in the navigation pane.
  3. Choose Change in the Password Policy section.
  4. After all that, you can select the options that you want to apply to your password policy and then Save Changes.

To delete a password policy (console)

  1. Sign-in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
  2. Now select Account Settings in the navigation pane.
  3. Choose Delete in the Password Policy section.
  4. Choose Delete Custom and give confirmation to delete the custom password policy.

Setting a Password Policy (AWS CLI)

The AWS Command Line Interface can be used to achieve this goal. The following can be run to manage the custom account password policy from the AWS CLI:
  1. To create or change the custom password policy: aws iam update-account-password-policy.
  2. To view the password policy: aws iam get-account-password-policy.
  3. To delete the custom password policy: aws iam delete-account-password-policy.

Setting a Password Policy (AWS API)

The AWS API Operations can be used to achieve this goal. The following operations can be called upon to manage the custom account password policy from the AWS API:
  1. To create or change the custom password policy: UpdateAccountPasswordPolicy.
  2. To view the password policy: GetAccountPasswordPolicy.
  3. To delete the custom password policy: DeleteAccountPasswordPolicy.







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