Category: AWS

Cognito is working great but its documentation sucks. If you followed the multi-page process of setting up Cognito User pool by hand using the web console and you are still stuck with these messages when trying to authenticate a valid user Unable to verify secret hash for client ….. Delete your existing app client and…

Your users created in Cognito User Pool admin console will automatically receive a FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD status flag. For some obscure reasons, you as an administrator cannot confirm the user yourself using the Cognito User Pool admin UI. By far the quickest solution is to use AWS CLI: aws cognito-idp admin-set-user-password \–user-pool-id <user-pool-id> \–username <username> \–password “<password>”…