Prevents the user from signing in with the specified external (SAML or social) identity provider (IdP). If the user that you want to deactivate is a Amazon Cognito user pools native username + password user, they can't use their password to sign in. If the user to deactivate is a linked external IdP user, any link between that user and an existing user is removed. When the external user signs in again, and the user is no longer attached to the previously linked
DestinationUser, the user must create a new user account.
The value of
ProviderName must match the name of a user pool IdP.
To deactivate a local user, set
ProviderName to
Cognito and the
ProviderAttributeName to
Cognito_Subject. The
ProviderAttributeValue must be user's local username.
The
ProviderAttributeName must always be
Cognito_Subject for social IdPs. The
ProviderAttributeValue must always be the exact subject that was used when the user was originally linked as a source user.
For de-linking a SAML identity, there are two scenarios. If the linked identity has not yet been used to sign in, the
ProviderAttributeName and
ProviderAttributeValue must be the same values that were used for the
SourceUser when the identities were originally linked using
AdminLinkProviderForUser call. This is also true if the linking was done with
ProviderAttributeName set to
Cognito_Subject. If the user has already signed in, the
ProviderAttributeName must be
Cognito_Subject and
ProviderAttributeValue must be the
NameID from their SAML assertion.
Amazon Cognito evaluates Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you must use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you must grant yourself the corresponding IAM permission in a policy.
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