How to set the password of a cognito user as the admin?

Question

Via the cognito admin API how do I set a users password? When a user is created I can set a temporary password, I need to be able to do this to an existing user.

Answer 1

The newest version of the cognito api adds an action AdminSetUserPassword which has a request syntax like the following

{
   "Password": "string",
   "Permanent": boolean,
   "Username": "string",
   "UserPoolId": "string"
}

and will allow you to set a permanent or temporary password for a given user.

Answer 2

EDIT-2: The newest version of cognito API now supports AdminSetUserPassword.

You can't set a users password, the only thing you can do is use AdminResetUserPassword.

EDIT: You can call ForgotPassword too. But as the name suggests this is supposed to be called by a user, not an admin.