Good afternoon,
I'm using Cognito hosted ui with some admin methods to configure my authentication flow.
I'd like my users to have the possibility to reset their own passwords using the Forgot your password? link on the hosted ui which works fine. But an administrator should also be able to force reset any user's password.
For that I use the adminResetUserPassword https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito-user-identity-pools/latest/APIReference/API_AdminResetUserPassword.html which works fine excepts that it sends a first verification code by email and then when the users returns on the hosted ui page and enters his (right but old) password, he is redirected to /forgotPassword page, is prompted to enter his username (email) and then receive a second verification code.
The first one is then expired. I find it a bit confusing for the user to receive the verification code twice and the first one is never used.
I reckon I need to find a way to redirect my users to /confirmPassword instead of /forgotPassword which re-triggers a new verification code. Is there a way to do this?
Many thanks,
When a user registers for my application I handle the request through an API and send an email containing a verification link. When the link is clicked it updates the email_verified attribute to true. This is working as expected.
The problem I'm having is that a user is allowed to login even when the attribute email_verified is set to false.
I'm using amplify to login the user. How can I block user login if the email has not been verified?
I found out the answer to this myself. I was registering the user with a custom lambda function which creates the user using adminCreateUser. This API automatically sets the UserStatus to CONFIRMED which is the field that is used to determine whether a user can log in or not. I was working on the assumption that it was the email_verified field which determined this, which was incorrect.
I fixed this by instead using the signUp function of the API which instead creates the user in an UNCONFIRMED state and doesn't allow login until the sign up is confirmed.
In django when some one signup for new account, he will be sent an email with an activation link.
One has to click on the activation link sent to them to activate their account. This i was able to achieve using Django.
Presently I am developing a mobile app.
I feel instead of asking them to click on an activation link, i want them to enter some code inside the app.
The code will be sent to their email.
So how to verify the account by passing token and later user will enter it.
1)Extend the user model with a token field.
2)Generate a random short value in that field
3)Edit registration email template to include this token
4)Create an API endpoint to listen for POST and wait for a match of USERNAME+TOKEN
While creating user in userpool, user invitation messages are sent with a temporary password but email verification messages is not being sent.
I was creating a very simple setup to try out aws cognito service.
Here is what I did in AWS cognito, I created a user pool with step by step as follows:
1)What do you want to name your user pool?
-> testpool
2)How do you want to create your user pool?
-> step through settings
3)How do you want your end users to sign in?
->Email address or phone number-Allow email addresses
4)What password strength do you want to require?
->Minimum length=6
5)Do you want to allow users to sign themselves up?
->Allow users to sign themselves up
6)How quickly should user accounts created by administrators expire if not used?
->Days to expire-7
7)Do you want to enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?
->off
8)Do you want to require verification of emails or phone numbers?
->Email
9)You must provide a role to allow Amazon Cognito to send SMS messages
->testpool-SMS-Role
10)Do you want to customize your email verification messages?
->Verification type-link
->Email subject = Your verification link
->Email message = Please click the link below to verify your email address. {##Verify Email##}
11)Do you want to customize your user invitation messages?
->SMS message = Your username is {username} and temporary password is ->{####}.
->Email subject = Your temporary password
->Email message = Your username is {username} and temporary password is {####}.
12)Do you want to customize your email address?
->no
13)Do you want to add tags for this user pool?
->no
14)Do you want to remember your user's devices?
->no
15)Which app clients will have access to this user pool?
->none(will simulate from create user option in genral setting-user and group)
16)Do you want to customize workflows with triggers?
->no
17)Review page - this page shows summary of whatever I selected
Create pool
Now after pool creation went ot genral setting-user and group and clicked create user
A Create user pop-up shows:
Username (Required): myEmailAddress
Send an invitation to this new user?: check
Temporary password: left blank
Phone Number: empty(not required)
Mark phone number as verified? unCheck
Email: myEmailAddress
Mark email as verified? unCheck
Click on Create User
A mail is received into my account form no-reply#verificationemail.com via amazonses.com,with subject: Your temporary password with message as: Your username is somemailid#gmail.com and temporary password is agsjyk.
This is okay.
But I didnot receive any verification mail link before previous mail.
Not sure if you're missing this particular setup....Domain name is require for link verification.
Under "Tab integration" then "Domain name"
A mail is received into my account form no-reply#verificationemail.com via
amazonses.com,
with subject: Your temporary password
with message as: Your username is somemailid#gmail.com and temporary password is > agsjyk.
Looking at this it seems you are creating the user via the Cognito API by the AdminCreateUser method, and that's why you are receiving a temporary password.
The confirmation email you are expecting will only be sent if the user registers itself, so you should use the SignUp method.
verification mail link is for when users sign themselves up, they will receive a link to ask them to verify the email address instead of a code. In your case, you are send a temporary password to the user, so the link wont show up.
You need to add a domain in this section of the Incognito Service:
Also, if you are not getting the email, click on the user, and check their email, it could be wrong.
If anyone else is facing this issue, it appears that you cannot send verification emails if you use SAML or a federated identity provider. Cognito sets the cognito user to EXTERNAL_PROVIDER and no Cognito API calls allow sending a verifcation code or link. The cognito user is automatically created on initial sign-in. I have my user pool set to validate email address but it is always set to false.
The only way that I know to confirm the user via SSO is to use an external verification process outside of cognito.
With Cognito, if you have added both email and phone number then you should allow both as verification methods(In the SignUp experience Tab) as below:
Otherwise the email verification link or code is not sent
I have a 1.10.1.1 Magento Enterprise version running and tried out the webservice. If I correctly login I get a session id which I can use to make further calls to the web service.
If I leave either the user or password field empty or both empty and want to login I also get a session id. But if I then want to call another method with this session id I get the message I have to relogin.
If I use wrong credentials (both user and password are filled with something) I get a message "Access denied".
So why do I get a session id I can't use if i leave one field (user/password) empty and why don't I get a message "Acces denied" then? Is this an error?