VerifySoftwareToken
Use this API to register a user's entered time-based one-time password (TOTP) code and mark the user's software token MFA status as "verified" if successful. The request takes an access token or a session string, but not both.
Amazon Cognito doesn't evaluate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests to 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 native and OIDC APIs.
Request Syntax
{
"AccessToken": "string",
"FriendlyDeviceName": "string",
"Session": "string",
"UserCode": "string"
}Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- AccessToken
-
A valid access token that Amazon Cognito issued to the user whose software token you want to verify.
Type: String
Pattern:
[A-Za-z0-9-_=.]+Required: No
- FriendlyDeviceName
-
The friendly device name.
Type: String
Required: No
- Session
-
The session that should be passed both ways in challenge-response calls to the service.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.
Required: No
- UserCode
-
The one- time password computed using the secret code returned by AssociateSoftwareToken.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Fixed length of 6.
Pattern:
[0-9]+Required: Yes
Response Syntax
{
"Session": "string",
"Status": "string"
}Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- CodeMismatchException
-
This exception is thrown if the provided code doesn't match what the server was expecting.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- EnableSoftwareTokenMFAException
-
This exception is thrown when there is a code mismatch and the service fails to configure the software token TOTP multi-factor authentication (MFA).
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ForbiddenException
-
This exception is thrown when AWS WAF doesn't allow your request based on a web ACL that's associated with your user pool.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- InternalErrorException
-
This exception is thrown when Amazon Cognito encounters an internal error.
HTTP Status Code: 500
- InvalidParameterException
-
This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service encounters an invalid parameter.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- InvalidUserPoolConfigurationException
-
This exception is thrown when the user pool configuration is not valid.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- NotAuthorizedException
-
This exception is thrown when a user isn't authorized.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- NotAuthorizedException
-
This exception is thrown when a user isn't authorized.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- PasswordResetRequiredException
-
This exception is thrown when a password reset is required.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ResourceNotFoundException
-
This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service can't find the requested resource.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- SoftwareTokenMFANotFoundException
-
This exception is thrown when the software token time-based one-time password (TOTP) multi-factor authentication (MFA) isn't activated for the user pool.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- TooManyRequestsException
-
This exception is thrown when the user has made too many requests for a given operation.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- UserNotConfirmedException
-
This exception is thrown when a user isn't confirmed successfully.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- UserNotFoundException
-
This exception is thrown when a user isn't found.
HTTP Status Code: 400
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
