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UpdateSigningCertificate - AWS Identity and Access Management
Request ParametersErrorsExamplesSee Also

UpdateSigningCertificate

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Changes the status of the specified user signing certificate from active to disabled, or vice versa. This operation can be used to disable an IAM user's signing certificate as part of a certificate rotation work flow.

If the UserName field is not specified, the user name is determined implicitly based on the AWS access key ID used to sign the request. This operation works for access keys under the AWS account. Consequently, you can use this operation to manage AWS account root user credentials even if the AWS account has no associated users.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

CertificateId

The ID of the signing certificate you want to update.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters that can consist of any upper or lowercased letter or digit.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 24. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\w]+

Required: Yes

Status

The status you want to assign to the certificate. Active means that the certificate can be used for programmatic calls to AWS Inactive means that the certificate cannot be used.

Type: String

Valid Values: Active | Inactive

Required: Yes

UserName

The name of the IAM user the signing certificate belongs to.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

Type: String

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

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: No

Errors

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

LimitExceeded

The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current AWS account limits. The error message describes the limit exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 409

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 UpdateSigningCertificate.

Sample Request

https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=UpdateSigningCertificate
&UserName=Bob
&CertificateId=TA7SMP42TDN5Z26OBPJE7EXAMPLE
&Status=Inactive
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<UpdateSigningCertificateResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
 <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>EXAMPLE8-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987EXAMPLE</RequestId>
 </ResponseMetadata>
</UpdateSigningCertificateResponse>

See Also

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

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