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[ aws . cognito-idp ]

set-user-mfa-preference

Description

Set the user's multi-factor authentication (MFA) method preference, including which MFA factors are activated and if any are preferred. Only one factor can be set as preferred. The preferred MFA factor will be used to authenticate a user if multiple factors are activated. If multiple options are activated and no preference is set, a challenge to choose an MFA option will be returned during sign-in. If an MFA type is activated for a user, the user will be prompted for MFA during all sign-in attempts unless device tracking is turned on and the device has been trusted. If you want MFA to be applied selectively based on the assessed risk level of sign-in attempts, deactivate MFA for users and turn on Adaptive Authentication for the user pool.

Authorize this action with a signed-in user's access token. It must include the scope aws.cognito.signin.user.admin .

Note

Amazon Cognito doesn't evaluate Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for 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 user pools API and user pool endpoints .

See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  set-user-mfa-preference
[--sms-mfa-settings <value>]
[--software-token-mfa-settings <value>]
--access-token <value>
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]

Options

--sms-mfa-settings (structure)

The SMS text message multi-factor authentication (MFA) settings.

Enabled -> (boolean)

Specifies whether SMS text message MFA is activated. If an MFA type is activated for a user, the user will be prompted for MFA during all sign-in attempts, unless device tracking is turned on and the device has been trusted.

PreferredMfa -> (boolean)

Specifies whether SMS is the preferred MFA method.

Shorthand Syntax:

Enabled=boolean,PreferredMfa=boolean

JSON Syntax:

{
  "Enabled": true|false,
  "PreferredMfa": true|false
}

--software-token-mfa-settings (structure)

The time-based one-time password (TOTP) software token MFA settings.

Enabled -> (boolean)

Specifies whether software token MFA is activated. If an MFA type is activated for a user, the user will be prompted for MFA during all sign-in attempts, unless device tracking is turned on and the device has been trusted.

PreferredMfa -> (boolean)

Specifies whether software token MFA is the preferred MFA method.

Shorthand Syntax:

Enabled=boolean,PreferredMfa=boolean

JSON Syntax:

{
  "Enabled": true|false,
  "PreferredMfa": true|false
}

--access-token (string)

A valid access token that Amazon Cognito issued to the user whose MFA preference you want to set.

--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command's default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json
  • text
  • table

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on
  • off
  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To set user MFA settings

The following set-user-mfa-preference example modifies the MFA delivery options. It changes the MFA delivery medium to SMS.

aws cognito-idp set-user-mfa-preference \
    --access-token "eyJra12345EXAMPLE" \
    --software-token-mfa-settings Enabled=true,PreferredMfa=true \
    --sms-mfa-settings Enabled=false,PreferredMfa=false

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Adding MFA to a user pool in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.

Output

None