uploadSigningCertificate

Uploads an X.509 signing certificate and associates it with the specified IAM user. Some Amazon Web Services services require you to use certificates to validate requests that are signed with a corresponding private key. When you upload the certificate, its default status is Active.

For information about when you would use an X.509 signing certificate, see Managing server certificates in IAM in the IAM User Guide.

If the UserName is not specified, the IAM user name is determined implicitly based on the Amazon Web Services access key ID used to sign the request. This operation works for access keys under the Amazon Web Services account. Consequently, you can use this operation to manage Amazon Web Services account root user credentials even if the Amazon Web Services account has no associated users.

Because the body of an X.509 certificate can be large, you should use POST rather than GET when calling UploadSigningCertificate. For information about setting up signatures and authorization through the API, see Signing Amazon Web Services API requests in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. For general information about using the Query API with IAM, see Making query requests in the IAM User Guide.

Samples


fun main() { 
   //sampleStart 
   // The following command uploads a signing certificate for the IAM user named Bob.
val resp = iamClient.uploadSigningCertificate {
    userName = "Bob"
    certificateBody = "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----<certificate-body>-----END CERTIFICATE-----"
} 
   //sampleEnd
}