Terraform Module to provision a basic IAM user suitable for humans. It will establish a login profile and associate the user with IAM groups.
We do not recommend creating IAM users for any other purpose. For external systems (e.g. CI/CD) check out our terraform-aws-iam-system-user module.
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First, make sure all users register with keybase.io to faciliate public key encryption (PKE). Then use their keybase username to automatically encrypt their AWS secret. It's that easy!
module "jack" {
source = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-iam-user.git?ref=master"
name = "jack"
pgp_key = "keybase:jack"
groups = ["admins"]
}NOTE: We recommend using email addresses for IAM user accounts.
module "jill" {
source = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-iam-user.git?ref=master"
name = "jill"
pgp_key = "keybase:jill"
groups = ["engineering"]
}Available targets:
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| Name | Description | Type | Default | Required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| enabled | Whether to create the IAM user | string | true |
no |
| force_destroy | When destroying this user, destroy even if it has non-Terraform-managed IAM access keys, login profile or MFA devices. Without force_destroy a user with non-Terraform-managed access keys and login profile will fail to be destroyed. | string | false |
no |
| groups | List of IAM user groups this user should belong to in the account | list | <list> |
no |
| login_profile_enabled | Whether to create IAM user login profile | string | true |
no |
| name | Desired name for the IAM user. We recommend using email addresses. | string | - | yes |
| password_length | The length of the generated password | string | 24 |
no |
| password_reset_required | Whether the user should be forced to reset the generated password on first login. | string | true |
no |
| path | Desired path for the IAM user | string | / |
no |
| permissions_boundary | The ARN of the policy that is used to set the permissions boundary for the user | string | `` | no |
| pgp_key | Provide a base-64 encoded PGP public key, or a keybase username in the form keybase:username. Required to encrypt password. |
string | - | yes |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| keybase_password_decrypt_command | Command to decrypt the Keybase encrypted password |
| keybase_password_pgp_message | PGP encrypted message (e.g. suitable for email exchanges) |
| pgp_key | PGP key used to encrypt sensitive data for this user |
| user_arn | The ARN assigned by AWS for this user |
| user_login_profile_encrypted_password | The encrypted password, base64 encoded |
| user_login_profile_key_fingerprint | The fingerprint of the PGP key used to encrypt the password |
| user_name | IAM user name |
| user_unique_id | The unique ID assigned by AWS |
Check out these related projects.
- terraform-aws-iam-assumed-roles - Terraform Module for Assumed Roles on AWS with IAM Groups Requiring MFA
- terraform-aws-iam-s3-user - Terraform module to provision a basic IAM user with permissions to access S3 resources, e.g. to give the user read/write/delete access to the objects in an S3 bucket
- terraform-aws-organization-access-group - Terraform module to create an IAM Group and Policy to grant permissions to delegated IAM users in the Organization's master account to access a member account
- terraform-aws-ssm-iam-role - Terraform module to provision an IAM role with configurable permissions to access SSM Parameter Store
- terraform-aws-iam-chamber-user - Terraform module to provision a basic IAM chamber user with access to SSM parameters and KMS key to decrypt secrets, suitable for CI/CD systems (e.g. TravisCI, CircleCI, CodeFresh) or systems which are external to AWS that cannot leverage AWS IAM Instance Profiles
- terraform-aws-lb-s3-bucket - Terraform module to provision an S3 bucket with built in IAM policy to allow AWS Load Balancers to ship access logs
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