To create a password for a user, giving them the ability to access AWS services through the AWS Management Console, you can use the create-login-profile CLI command.

In the terminal, enter the following to create a login profile for the user named Bob in the current account.

aws iam create-login-profile --user-name Bob 
  --password SuperSecurePassword1234
  --password-reset-required

Output:

{
    "LoginProfile": {
        "UserName": "Bob",
        "CreateDate": "2015-03-10T20:55:40.274Z",
        "PasswordResetRequired": true
    }
}

The user must exist before you can create the login profile. For more information, see How to create an AWS IAM User with the CLI.

Note: If the new password violates the account password policy, the command returns a PasswordPolicyViolation error.

The create-login-profile command accepts additional options:

create-login-profile
  --user-name <value> //required
  --password <value> //required
  --password-reset-required | --no-password-reset-required //optional
  --cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml //optional
  --generate-cli-skeleton <value> //optional
  --cli-auto-prompt <value> //optional

For more information about the command and the additional options, see create-login-profile in the official AWS CLI Command reference.

Note: For this example to work, you need to install and configure the AWS CLI first.