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update_user

Operation

update_user async

update_user(input: UpdateUserInput, plugins: list[Plugin] | None = None) -> UpdateUserOutput

Updates the name and/or the path of the specified IAM user.

Warning

You should understand the implications of changing an IAM user's path or name. For more information, see Renaming an IAM user and Renaming an IAM group in the IAM User Guide.

Note: To change a user name, the requester must have appropriate permissions on both the source object and the target object. For example, to change Bob to Robert, the entity making the request must have permission on Bob and Robert, or must have permission on all (*). For more information about permissions, see Permissions and policies.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
input UpdateUserInput

An instance of UpdateUserInput.

required
plugins list[Plugin] | None

A list of callables that modify the configuration dynamically. Changes made by these plugins only apply for the duration of the operation execution and will not affect any other operation invocations.

None

Returns:

Type Description
UpdateUserOutput

An instance of UpdateUserOutput.

Input

UpdateUserInput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for UpdateUserInput structure.

Attributes

new_path class-attribute instance-attribute
new_path: str | None = ...

New path for the IAM user. Include this parameter only if you're changing the user's path.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of either a forward slash (/) by itself or a string that must begin and end with forward slashes. In addition, it can contain any ASCII character from the ! (!) through the DEL character (), including most punctuation characters, digits, and upper and lowercased letters.

new_user_name class-attribute instance-attribute
new_user_name: str | None = ...

New name for the user. Include this parameter only if you're changing the user's name.

IAM user, group, role, and policy names must be unique within the account. Names are not distinguished by case. For example, you cannot create resources named both "MyResource" and "myresource".

user_name class-attribute instance-attribute
user_name: str | None = ...

Name of the user to update. If you're changing the name of the user, this is the original user name.

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: _+=,.@-

Output

UpdateUserOutput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for UpdateUserOutput structure.

Attributes

response_metadata class-attribute instance-attribute
response_metadata: ResponseMetadata = ...

Metadata about the response that produced this output. Use this to recover the request identifiers a service's support team needs in order to investigate a call. Members of the metadata are individually optional.