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How to Reset Amazon Web Console Password from Amazon CLI.

How to Reset Amazon Web Console Password from Amazon CLI.

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Venketraman
·Sep 4, 2021·

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Amazon web services have both GUI and CLI methods for user access.

  • Web console is GUI mode all of using and well known method.
  • CLI is the most useful and best way to simplify our work on AWS. We can simple run the scripts to manage our AWS resources using AWS CLI

Here i am going to explain the below things.

  • Install AWS CLI
  • Create IAM User and get credentials
  • Configure our AWS account using credentials
  • Verify the AWS CLi configuration
  • Update or modify our AWS Webconsole password via AWS CLI

1.Insatll and configure AWS Cli

msiexec.exe /i https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi

To verify your installation check the aws version command

aws --version

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2. Create IAM User and get credentials

  • Open IAM Console And Add user

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  • Provide the appropriate rights to the user

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  • After create the user download the security credentials(Access Key ID ,Secret access key) image.png

3. Configure our AWS account using credentials

  • Now we are going to configure our IAM user in our local pc using aws configure command
aws configure
  • Now its asking Access Key ID ,Secret access key,Default region and out put file format. just enter your values

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4. Verify the AWS CLi configuration

  • To verify your IAM configuration is working execute the below command.
aws s3 ls
  • If you have any bucket on S3 it display the list of buckets you have.

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5. Update or modify our AWS Web Console password via AWS CLI

Syntax: aws iam update-login-profile --user-name (your iam user name) --password (your IAM new password)

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  • Now the web console password has changed.

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That's All Guys...

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