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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Cognito Identity Provider RespondToAuthChallenge API operation.

Syntax

Send-CGIPAuthChallengeResponse
-ClientId <String>
-AnalyticsMetadata_AnalyticsEndpointId <String>
-ChallengeName <ChallengeNameType>
-ChallengeResponse <Hashtable>
-ClientMetadata <Hashtable>
-UserContextData_EncodedData <String>
-Session <String>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-Force <SwitchParameter>

Description

Responds to the authentication challenge. This action might generate an SMS text message. Starting June 1, 2021, U.S. telecom carriers require that you register an origination phone number before you can send SMS messages to U.S. phone numbers. If you use SMS text messages in Amazon Cognito, you must register a phone number with Amazon Pinpoint. Cognito will use the the registered number automatically. Otherwise, Cognito users that must receive SMS messages might be unable to sign up, activate their accounts, or sign in. If you have never used SMS text messages with Amazon Cognito or any other Amazon Web Service, Amazon SNS might place your account in SMS sandbox. In sandbox mode, you’ll have limitations, such as sending messages to only verified phone numbers. After testing in the sandbox environment, you can move out of the SMS sandbox and into production. For more information, see SMS message settings for Cognito User Pools in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.

Parameters

-AnalyticsMetadata_AnalyticsEndpointId <String>
The endpoint ID.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ChallengeName <ChallengeNameType>
The challenge name. For more information, see InitiateAuth.ADMIN_NO_SRP_AUTH is not a valid value.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ChallengeResponse <Hashtable>
The challenge responses. These are inputs corresponding to the value of ChallengeName, for example:SECRET_HASH (if app client is configured with client secret) applies to all inputs below (including SOFTWARE_TOKEN_MFA).
  • SMS_MFA: SMS_MFA_CODE, USERNAME.
  • PASSWORD_VERIFIER: PASSWORD_CLAIM_SIGNATURE, PASSWORD_CLAIM_SECRET_BLOCK, TIMESTAMP, USERNAME.
  • NEW_PASSWORD_REQUIRED: NEW_PASSWORD, any other required attributes, USERNAME.
  • SOFTWARE_TOKEN_MFA: USERNAME and SOFTWARE_TOKEN_MFA_CODE are required attributes.
  • DEVICE_SRP_AUTH requires USERNAME, DEVICE_KEY, SRP_A (and SECRET_HASH).
  • DEVICE_PASSWORD_VERIFIER requires everything that PASSWORD_VERIFIER requires plus DEVICE_KEY.
  • MFA_SETUP requires USERNAME, plus you need to use the session value returned by VerifySoftwareToken in the Session parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesChallengeResponses
-ClientId <String>
The app client ID.
Required?True
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ClientMetadata <Hashtable>
A map of custom key-value pairs that you can provide as input for any custom workflows that this action triggers. You create custom workflows by assigning Lambda functions to user pool triggers. When you use the RespondToAuthChallenge API action, Amazon Cognito invokes any functions that are assigned to the following triggers: post authentication, pre token generation, define auth challenge, create auth challenge, and verify auth challenge. When Amazon Cognito invokes any of these functions, it passes a JSON payload, which the function receives as input. This payload contains a clientMetadata attribute, which provides the data that you assigned to the ClientMetadata parameter in your RespondToAuthChallenge request. In your function code in Lambda, you can process the clientMetadata value to enhance your workflow for your specific needs.For more information, see Customizing User Pool Workflows with Lambda Triggers in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.Take the following limitations into consideration when you use the ClientMetadata parameter:
  • Amazon Cognito does not store the ClientMetadata value. This data is available only to Lambda triggers that are assigned to a user pool to support custom workflows. If your user pool configuration does not include triggers, the ClientMetadata parameter serves no purpose.
  • Amazon Cognito does not validate the ClientMetadata value.
  • Amazon Cognito does not encrypt the the ClientMetadata value, so don't use it to provide sensitive information.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Force <SwitchParameter>
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the ClientId parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^ClientId' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is '*'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.CognitoIdentityProvider.Model.RespondToAuthChallengeResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.CognitoIdentityProvider.Model.RespondToAuthChallengeResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Session <String>
The session which should be passed both ways in challenge-response calls to the service. If InitiateAuth or RespondToAuthChallenge API call determines that the caller needs to go through another challenge, they return a session with other challenge parameters. This session should be passed as it is to the next RespondToAuthChallenge API call.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-UserContextData_EncodedData <String>
Contextual data such as the user's device fingerprint, IP address, or location used for evaluating the risk of an unexpected event by Amazon Cognito advanced security.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

Amazon.CognitoIdentityProvider.Model.RespondToAuthChallengeResponse
This cmdlet returns an Amazon.CognitoIdentityProvider.Model.RespondToAuthChallengeResponse object containing multiple properties. The object can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.
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Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z