IAM Access denied Issue

Question

Getting error in user groups, user and any action performed shows "Action denied, contact AWS administrator". Can you please help me on this. Please find one of the error message

You don't have permission to iam:ListUsers. To request access, copy the following text and send it to your AWS administrator. Learn more about troubleshooting access denied errors.

User: arn:aws:iam::{ID}:user/{USERIAMNAME}
Service: iam
Action: ListUsers
On resource(s): arn:aws:iam::{ID}:user/
Context: no identity-based policy allows the iam:ListUsers action

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Answer

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All you need to do is, log in with user/role, that has Admin/elevated privileges. Add **iam:ListUsers** action in one of the policy attached to your user/group policy. Once you would have added this permission and there are no denies at SCP/permission boundary level, you should be able to pass this error.

Or

You can add an policy to your user/group by following the below mentioned steps:

1. Go to [IAM Console](https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/iamv2/home?region=us-east-1#/home)
2. Click on Users
3. Click on your username(mounikaande)
4. Add permissions
5. Create inline policy
6. Click on JSON at right side
7. Add following json policy there:
     {
	     "Version": "2012-10-17",
	     "Statement": [
		     {
			     "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
			     "Effect": "Allow",
			     "Action": "iam:ListUsers",
			     "Resource": "*"
		     }
	     ]
     }

If this user belongs to a. group, then you need to do the same thing for the group not to specific user, if this group is ok to have this permission.

Once you add this policy, to your user or to the group, which this user belongs to, you should pass this error.

Hope this helps.

Comment here if you have additional questions, happy to help.

Abhishek

Answer

I can't add or see my username in users section and below is the screenshot. Can you please suggest where to add permissions.
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