AttachUserPolicy
Attaches the specified managed policy to the specified user.
You use this operation to attach a managed policy to a user. To
embed an inline policy in a user, use PutUserPolicy.
As a best practice, you can validate your IAM policies. To learn more, see Validating IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.
For more information about policies, see Managed policies and inline policies in the IAM User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- PolicyArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy you want to attach.
For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the AWS General Reference.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.
Required: Yes
- UserName
-
The name (friendly name, not ARN) of the IAM user to attach the policy 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 64.
Pattern:
[\w+=,.@-]+Required: Yes
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- InvalidInput
-
The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- 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
- PolicyNotAttachable
-
The request failed because AWS service role policies can only be attached to the service-linked role for that service.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- 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 AttachUserPolicy.
Sample Request
https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=AttachUserPolicy
&PolicyArn=arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess
&UserName=Alice
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMSSample Response
<AttachUserPolicyResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>ed7e72d3-3d07-11e4-bfad-8d1c6EXAMPLE</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</AttachUserPolicyResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
