How to edit user attributes in AWS Cognito User Pool for specific user?

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MichaD picture MichaD · Nov 28, 2016 · Viewed 19.9k times · Source

I'm using AWS Cognito User Pool and have created some users. Now I would like to change some of the attributes for a specific user such as name, address, etc...

Is it possible to do this on an AWS Website? If so, how?

Answer

Bruce0 picture Bruce0 · Nov 28, 2016

The console does not have that capability but it can be done in the AWS Command Line Interface.

aws cognito-idp admin-update-user-attributes \
    --user-pool-id xxx \
    --username yyy \
    --user-attributes Name=xxx,Value=yyy Name=ttt,Value=sss ...

Custom attributes use the following syntax:

--user-attributes Name="custom:attributeName",Value="value with space"

You need to set up your credentials with cli first (only the first time), via the command:

aws configure

but after that it is straightforward. For more:

aws cognito-idp admin-update-user-attributes help

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