Create AWS IAM user via CLI

README.md

Usually, you need to run following four commands to create a user.

#!/bin/bash
# create bare user 
aws iam create-user --user-name <user> --tags Key=Creator,Value=kasung

# enable aws console access
aws iam create-login-profile --user-name <user> --password <password> --password-reset-required

# create access keys for programmatic access
aws iam create-access-key --user-name <user>

# add user to a group to provide permissions
aws iam add-user-to-group --group-name <group> --user-name <user>

To find what are the existing groups you have, enter following command:

aws iam list-groups
aws iam list-groups-for-user --user-name <existing-user>