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CreateTrust - AWS Directory Service

CreateTrust

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory allows you to configure trust relationships. For example, you can establish a trust between your AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory, and your existing self-managed Microsoft Active Directory. This would allow you to provide users and groups access to resources in either domain, with a single set of credentials.

This action initiates the creation of the AWS side of a trust relationship between an AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory and an external domain. You can create either a forest trust or an external trust.

Request Syntax

{ "ConditionalForwarderIpAddrs": [ "string" ], "DirectoryId": "string", "RemoteDomainName": "string", "SelectiveAuth": "string", "TrustDirection": "string", "TrustPassword": "string", "TrustType": "string" }

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ConditionalForwarderIpAddrs

The IP addresses of the remote DNS server associated with RemoteDomainName.

Type: Array of strings

Pattern: ^(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)$

Required: No

DirectoryId

The Directory ID of the AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory for which to establish the trust relationship.

Type: String

Pattern: ^d-[0-9a-f]{10}$

Required: Yes

RemoteDomainName

The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the external domain for which to create the trust relationship.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+[\\.-])+([a-zA-Z0-9])+[.]?$

Required: Yes

SelectiveAuth

Optional parameter to enable selective authentication for the trust.

Type: String

Valid Values: Enabled | Disabled

Required: No

TrustDirection

The direction of the trust relationship.

Type: String

Valid Values: One-Way: Outgoing | One-Way: Incoming | Two-Way

Required: Yes

TrustPassword

The trust password. The trust password must be the same password that was used when creating the trust relationship on the external domain.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^(\p{LD}|\p{Punct}| )+$

Required: Yes

TrustType

The trust relationship type. Forest is the default.

Type: String

Valid Values: Forest | External

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "TrustId": "string" }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

TrustId

A unique identifier for the trust relationship that was created.

Type: String

Pattern: ^t-[0-9a-f]{10}$

Errors

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

ClientException

A client exception has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EntityAlreadyExistsException

The specified entity already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EntityDoesNotExistException

The specified entity could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterException

One or more parameters are not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

An exception has occurred in AWS Directory Service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

UnsupportedOperationException

The operation is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

The following examples are formatted for legibility.

Example Request

This example illustrates one usage of CreateTrust.

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: ds.us-west-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 222 X-Amz-Target: DirectoryService_20150416.CreateTrust X-Amz-Date: 20161213T235223Z User-Agent: aws-cli/1.11.24 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7 botocore/1.4.81 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAI7E3BYXS3example/20161213/us-west-2/ds/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=1f0cff7825d20bab2a0dab1e0b8bedbed72f0c22175c7d9ed0e63598ae99cae5 { "TrustPassword":"Str0ngP@ssw0rd", "DirectoryId":"d-926example", "RemoteDomainName":"europe.example.com", "ConditionalForwarderIpAddrs":[ "172.30.21.228" ], "TrustType":"Forest", "TrustDirection":"One-Way: Outgoing" }

Example Response

This example illustrates one usage of CreateTrust.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amzn-RequestId: 3343bc79-c18f-11e6-ba7f-e33ae22bc363 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 26 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:52:26 GMT { "TrustId":"t-9267353743" }

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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