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

You can change that user status FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD by calling respondToAuthChallenge() on the user like this:

var params = {
  ChallengeName: 'NEW_PASSWORD_REQUIRED', 
  ClientId: 'your_own3j6...0obh',
  ChallengeResponses: {
    USERNAME: 'user3',
    NEW_PASSWORD: 'changed12345'
  },
  Session: 'xxxxxxxxxxZDMcRu-5u...sCvrmZb6tHY'
};

cognitoidentityserviceprovider.respondToAuthChallenge(params, function(err, data) {
  if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
  else     console.log(data);           // successful response
});

After this, you'll see in the console that user3 status is CONFIRMED.