IAM / Client / attach_user_policy

attach_user_policy#

IAM.Client.attach_user_policy(**kwargs)#

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 Syntax

response = client.attach_user_policy(
    UserName='string',
    PolicyArn='string'
)

Parameters:

UserName (string) –
[REQUIRED]

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: _+=,.@-
PolicyArn (string) –
[REQUIRED]

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 Amazon Web Services General Reference .

Returns:

None

Exceptions

Examples

The following command attaches the AWS managed policy named AdministratorAccess to the IAM user named Alice.

response = client.attach_user_policy(
    PolicyArn='arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess',
    UserName='Alice',
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}