Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

GetAccountPasswordPolicy

Retrieves the password policy for the AWS account. This tells you the complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods for the IAM user passwords in your account. For more information about using a password policy, see Managing an IAM password policy.

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

PasswordPolicy

A structure that contains details about the account's password policy.

Type: PasswordPolicy object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

NoSuchEntity

The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceFailure

The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of GetAccountPasswordPolicy.

Sample Request


https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=GetAccountPasswordPolicy
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response


<GetAccountPasswordPolicyResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <GetAccountPasswordPolicyResult>
    <PasswordPolicy>
      <AllowUsersToChangePassword>true</AllowUsersToChangePassword>
      <RequireUppercaseCharacters>true</RequireUppercaseCharacters>
      <RequireSymbols>true</RequireSymbols>
      <ExpirePasswords>false</ExpirePasswords>
      <PasswordReusePrevention>12</PasswordReusePrevention>
      <RequireLowercaseCharacters>true</RequireLowercaseCharacters>
      <MaxPasswordAge>90</MaxPasswordAge>
      <HardExpiry>false</HardExpiry>
      <RequireNumbers>true</RequireNumbers>
      <MinimumPasswordLength>12</MinimumPasswordLength>
    </PasswordPolicy>
  </GetAccountPasswordPolicyResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>7a62c49f-347e-4fc4-9331-6e8eEXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</GetAccountPasswordPolicyResponse>