How to Reset Amazon Web Console Password from Amazon CLI.

How to Reset Amazon Web Console Password from Amazon CLI.

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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