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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Cognito Identity Provider AdminInitiateAuth API operation.

Syntax

Start-CGIPAuthAdmin
-ClientId <String>
-AnalyticsMetadata_AnalyticsEndpointId <String>
-AuthFlow <AuthFlowType>
-AuthParameter <Hashtable>
-ClientMetadata <Hashtable>
-ContextData_EncodedData <String>
-ContextData_HttpHeader <HttpHeader[]>
-ContextData_IpAddress <String>
-ContextData_ServerName <String>
-ContextData_ServerPath <String>
-UserPoolId <String>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-Force <SwitchParameter>

Description

Initiates the authentication flow, as an administrator. Calling this action requires developer credentials.

Parameters

-AnalyticsMetadata_AnalyticsEndpointId <String>
The endpoint ID.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-AuthFlow <AuthFlowType>
The authentication flow for this call to execute. The API action will depend on this value. For example:
  • REFRESH_TOKEN_AUTH will take in a valid refresh token and return new tokens.
  • USER_SRP_AUTH will take in USERNAME and SRP_A and return the SRP variables to be used for next challenge execution.
  • USER_PASSWORD_AUTH will take in USERNAME and PASSWORD and return the next challenge or tokens.
Valid values include:
  • USER_SRP_AUTH: Authentication flow for the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol.
  • REFRESH_TOKEN_AUTH/REFRESH_TOKEN: Authentication flow for refreshing the access token and ID token by supplying a valid refresh token.
  • CUSTOM_AUTH: Custom authentication flow.
  • ADMIN_NO_SRP_AUTH: Non-SRP authentication flow; you can pass in the USERNAME and PASSWORD directly if the flow is enabled for calling the app client.
  • USER_PASSWORD_AUTH: Non-SRP authentication flow; USERNAME and PASSWORD are passed directly. If a user migration Lambda trigger is set, this flow will invoke the user migration Lambda if the USERNAME is not found in the user pool.
  • ADMIN_USER_PASSWORD_AUTH: Admin-based user password authentication. This replaces the ADMIN_NO_SRP_AUTH authentication flow. In this flow, Cognito receives the password in the request instead of using the SRP process to verify passwords.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-AuthParameter <Hashtable>
The authentication parameters. These are inputs corresponding to the AuthFlow that you are invoking. The required values depend on the value of AuthFlow:
  • For USER_SRP_AUTH: USERNAME (required), SRP_A (required), SECRET_HASH (required if the app client is configured with a client secret), DEVICE_KEY
  • For REFRESH_TOKEN_AUTH/REFRESH_TOKEN: REFRESH_TOKEN (required), SECRET_HASH (required if the app client is configured with a client secret), DEVICE_KEY
  • For ADMIN_NO_SRP_AUTH: USERNAME (required), SECRET_HASH (if app client is configured with client secret), PASSWORD (required), DEVICE_KEY
  • For CUSTOM_AUTH: USERNAME (required), SECRET_HASH (if app client is configured with client secret), DEVICE_KEY
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAuthParameters
-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 certain custom workflows that this action triggers.You create custom workflows by assigning AWS Lambda functions to user pool triggers. When you use the AdminInitiateAuth API action, Amazon Cognito invokes the AWS Lambda functions that are specified for various triggers. The ClientMetadata value is passed as input to the functions for only the following triggers:
  • Pre signup
  • Pre authentication
  • User migration
When Amazon Cognito invokes the functions for these triggers, it passes a JSON payload, which the function receives as input. This payload contains a validationData attribute, which provides the data that you assigned to the ClientMetadata parameter in your AdminInitiateAuth request. In your function code in AWS Lambda, you can process the validationData value to enhance your workflow for your specific needs.When you use the AdminInitiateAuth API action, Amazon Cognito also invokes the functions for the following triggers, but it does not provide the ClientMetadata value as input:
  • Post authentication
  • Custom message
  • Pre token generation
  • Create auth challenge
  • Define auth challenge
  • Verify auth challenge
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 AWS 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)
-ContextData_EncodedData <String>
Encoded data containing device fingerprinting details, collected using the Amazon Cognito context data collection library.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ContextData_HttpHeader <HttpHeader[]>
HttpHeaders received on your server in same order.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesContextData_HttpHeaders
-ContextData_IpAddress <String>
Source IP address of your user.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ContextData_ServerName <String>
Your server endpoint where this API is invoked.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ContextData_ServerPath <String>
Your server path where this API is invoked.
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.AdminInitiateAuthResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.CognitoIdentityProvider.Model.AdminInitiateAuthResponse 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)
-UserPoolId <String>
The ID of the Amazon Cognito user pool.
Required?True
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)
Aliases AK
-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 (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. Note that the encrypted credential file is not supported on all platforms. It will be skipped when searching for profiles on Windows Nano Server, Mac, and Linux platforms.

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)
Aliases AWSProfilesLocation, 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)
Aliases AWSProfileName, StoredCredentials
-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 (ByPropertyName)
-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)
Aliases SecretAccessKey, SK
-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)
Aliases ST
-Region <String>
The system name of the AWS region in which the operation should be invoked. For example, us-east-1, eu-west-1 etc.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases RegionToCall
-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)

Inputs

System.String
You can pipe a String object to this cmdlet for the ClientId parameter.

Outputs

Amazon.CognitoIdentityProvider.Model.AdminInitiateAuthResponse
This cmdlet returns an Amazon.CognitoIdentityProvider.Model.AdminInitiateAuthResponse 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