Use AddUserToGroup with an AWS SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use AddUserToGroup.

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• Create a group and add a user

.NET

AWS SDK for .NET

Note

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    /// <summary>
    /// Add an existing IAM user to an existing IAM group.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="userName">The username of the user to add.</param>
    /// <param name="groupName">The name of the group to add the user to.</param>
    /// <returns>A Boolean value indicating the success of the action.</returns>
    public async Task<bool> AddUserToGroupAsync(string userName, string groupName)
    {
        var response = await _IAMService.AddUserToGroupAsync(new AddUserToGroupRequest
        {
            GroupName = groupName,
            UserName = userName,
        });

        return response.HttpStatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK;
    }

• For API details, see AddUserToGroup in AWS SDK for .NET API Reference.

CLI

AWS CLI

To add a user to an IAM group

The following add-user-to-group command adds an IAM user named Bob to the IAM group named Admins.

aws iam add-user-to-group \
    --user-name Bob \
    --group-name Admins

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Adding and removing users in an IAM user group in the AWS IAM User Guide.

• For API details, see AddUserToGroup in AWS CLI Command Reference.

PowerShell

Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This command adds the user named Bob to the group named Admins.

Add-IAMUserToGroup -UserName "Bob" -GroupName "Admins"

• For API details, see AddUserToGroup in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

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