Why can't I see the permissions attached to a user in IAM?

Question

When I set up the users on my account I used this link
https://awspolicygen.s3.amazonaws.com/policygen.html
to generate the json giving them the specific access rights to the specific services and resources I wanted, and I copied and pasted that into something in the set up.

I know that after that initial set up, I then went back to users in IAM and was able to alter the json to further expand or limit their permissions.

The problem is now I can't find my way back to that. When I look at my users in IAM, under 'Permissions' they have in the 'Permissions Policies' section it says "No resources to display". The users also do not belong to any groups. So my questions are:

1. Why can't I see the permissions a user has?
2. Why does it look like my users have 0 permissions?
3. Where is the json that I initially generated and then later edited to set their permissions?

Answer

Hi, the policy generator that you used is a helper to create json with proper syntax but it doesn't create them in IAM. You have to do it yourself by copying and pasting the generated policies to the AWS IAM console of your accounts after you chose which users to attribute those policies to.

The documentation on how to change permissions of a given user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_users_change-permissions.html

Hope it helps

Didier

The documentation on how to change permissions of a given user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_users_change-permissions.html

Hope it helps

Didier

Why can't I see the permissions attached to a user in IAM?

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