Cannot create an IAM Identity Center administrative user following the documentation

Question

I'm carefully following the steps in the official documentation on creating an IAM user, but on Step 4 things just get out of sync with the instructions.

Following the guidance in [Step 2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/get-started-use-identity-center-directory-create-user-in-identity-center.html), I created my first IAM account.

In [Step 3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/get-started-create-an-administrative-permission-set.html) I created the administrative permission set.

And now in [Step 4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/get-started-assign-account-access-admin-user.html) where I should assign the created permission set to the IAM user, I just don't see this user in the tree-view.

Any ideas on how to get the IAM user I created in the "Multi-account permissions" > "AWS accounts" list?

Thanks in advance.

Accepted Answer

So, it seems one has to do one non-obvious thing: to assign permissions for *the new user*, one literally has to "Assign users or groups" to *the old user* in the UI:

![Enter image description here](/media/postImages/original/IMlKc0vDgcR_i8C9upwimDKw)

Mindblowing!

Anyways, it seemed to solve the problem. Yahoo!

Yet, there are 4 more steps ahead. Good luck to me!

Cannot create an IAM Identity Center administrative user following the documentation

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