How to change User Status FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD?

Question

Using AWS Cognito, I want to create dummy users for testing purposes.

I then use the AWS Console to create such user, but the user has its status s

Answer 1

This has finally been added to AWSCLI: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cognito-idp/admin-set-user-password.html

You can change a user's password and update status using:

aws cognito-idp admin-set-user-password --user-pool-id --username user1 --password password --permanent

Before using this, you may need to update your AWS CLI using:

pip3 install awscli --upgrade