Links an existing user account in a user pool (DestinationUser) to an
identity from an external identity provider (SourceUser) based on a
specified attribute name and value from the external identity provider.
This allows you to create a link from the existing user account to an
external federated user identity that has not yet been used to sign in,
so that the federated user identity can be used to sign in as the
existing user account.
cognitoidentityprovider_admin_link_provider_for_user(UserPoolId,
DestinationUser, SourceUser)[required] The user pool ID for the user pool.
[required] The existing user in the user pool to be linked to the external identity provider user account. Can be a native (Username + Password) Cognito User Pools user or a federated user (for example, a SAML or Facebook user). If the user doesn't exist, an exception is thrown. This is the user that is returned when the new user (with the linked identity provider attribute) signs in.
For a native username + password user, the ProviderAttributeValue for
the DestinationUser should be the username in the user pool. For a
federated user, it should be the provider-specific user_id.
The ProviderAttributeName of the DestinationUser is ignored.
The ProviderName should be set to Cognito for users in Cognito user
pools.
[required] An external identity provider account for a user who does not currently exist yet in the user pool. This user must be a federated user (for example, a SAML or Facebook user), not another native user.
If the SourceUser is a federated social identity provider user
(Facebook, Google, or Login with Amazon), you must set the
ProviderAttributeName to Cognito_Subject. For social identity
providers, the ProviderName will be Facebook, Google, or
LoginWithAmazon, and Cognito will automatically parse the Facebook,
Google, and Login with Amazon tokens for id, sub, and user_id,
respectively. The ProviderAttributeValue for the user must be the same
value as the id, sub, or user_id value found in the social
identity provider token.
For SAML, the ProviderAttributeName can be any value that matches a
claim in the SAML assertion. If you wish to link SAML users based on the
subject of the SAML assertion, you should map the subject to a claim
through the SAML identity provider and submit that claim name as the
ProviderAttributeName. If you set ProviderAttributeName to
Cognito_Subject, Cognito will automatically parse the default unique
identifier found in the subject from the SAML token.
svc$admin_link_provider_for_user(
UserPoolId = "string",
DestinationUser = list(
ProviderName = "string",
ProviderAttributeName = "string",
ProviderAttributeValue = "string"
),
SourceUser = list(
ProviderName = "string",
ProviderAttributeName = "string",
ProviderAttributeValue = "string"
)
)
For example, if there is an existing user with a username and password, this API links that user to a federated user identity, so that when the federated user identity is used, the user signs in as the existing user account.
Because this API allows a user with an external federated identity to sign in as an existing user in the user pool, it is critical that it only be used with external identity providers and provider attributes that have been trusted by the application owner.
See also .
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