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Use DeleteAccountPasswordPolicy with a CLI

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Use DeleteAccountPasswordPolicy with a CLI - AWS Identity and Access Management

The following code examples show how to use DeleteAccountPasswordPolicy.

CLI
AWS CLI

To delete the current account password policy

The following delete-account-password-policy command removes the password policy for the current account.

aws iam delete-account-password-policy

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Setting an account password policy for IAM users in the AWS IAM User Guide.

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Example 1: This example deletes the password policy for the AWS account and resets all values to their original defaults. If a password policy does not currently exist, the following error message appears: The account policy with name PasswordPolicy cannot be found.

Remove-IAMAccountPasswordPolicy
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AWS CLI

To delete the current account password policy

The following delete-account-password-policy command removes the password policy for the current account.

aws iam delete-account-password-policy

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Setting an account password policy for IAM users in the AWS IAM User Guide.

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using this service with an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.

Related resources

AWS Identity and Access Management API Reference
AWS CLI commands for AWS Identity and Access Management
SDKs & Tools 

Related resources

AWS Identity and Access Management API Reference
AWS CLI commands for AWS Identity and Access Management
SDKs & Tools 
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