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Questions tagged with Multi-factor Authentication
AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a simple best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of your user name and password.
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I have been trying to access my other AWS account for months now. I no longer have access to the email address I used for the MFA. I am being billed on both accounts. I have created multiple support t...
What should be the correct login flow after enabling MFA if the user has not specified a phone number in advance?
Hosted UI (or Managed Login) flow looks like this:
user enter login and password
user...
When OTP MFA is required for a user pool, any user who logs in is shown screens to enroll an authenticator device.
I don't want to require MFA for all logins but I want to enable:
1. Users who want t...
I am able to connect to AWS VPN client but still everytime I connect to it I get this error: "An error occurred while signing in to the application
No access
Confirm with your administrator that you h...
I don't have any of the MFA methods listed on the MFA requirement at login, nor do I want to begin using them, nothing else I use requires MFA beyond text/email verification. I would like to disable i...
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I've configured Cognito to remember devices and allow device auth (DEVICE_SRP_AUTH) once an initial login **with** email MFA has occurred.
What I'd now like to do is use adaptive authenticati...
We have Cognito configured with optional MFA, oauth2, and hosted signup.
We typically manually add a new user email, and choose 'generate password' and 'email password'.
However when the user rece...
1/What is the code trying to achieve?
I am trying to integrate my DLT-registered Sender ID, Entity ID, and Template ID with AWS SNS and Cognito in India to send OTP SMS for user authentication and MFA...
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I'm looking for some advice on to what extent Cognito's Custom Authentication (define-, create- and verify auth challenge lambdas) can integrate with 'Advanced Security' and adaptive technique...
Hi AWS, I am planning to write an SCP for the following:
1. MFA should be enabled for all IAM users.
2. Hardware MFA should be enabled for the root user.
3. MFA should be enabled for the root user
M...
asked 7 months ago
I am trying to set up MFA for a new user. That user previously tried to set up MFA but did not have permissions to do so. There are currently no MFA devices registered for that user - I checked via th...
I am trying to add a new Yubikey to my IAM user as MFA device
The browser does not prompt to touch the key.
I can sign in with the key to other AWS accounts, so the key and USB port are working.
I'v...