I'm trying to create a new Task for ECS using a compose file, but i'm getting an AccessDeniedException even when my user has the required permissions.
$ ecs-cli compose --project-name test create
WARN[0000] Skipping unsupported YAML option for service...  option name=build service name=builder
WARN[0000] Skipping unsupported YAML option for service...  option name=restart service name=db
WARN[0000] Skipping unsupported YAML option for service...  option name=restart service name=dbadmin
WARN[0000] Skipping unsupported YAML option for service...  option name=restart service name=app
ERRO[0001] Error registering task definition             error=AccessDeniedException: User: arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXX:user/foo is not authorized to perform: ecs:RegisterTaskDefinition on resource: *
    status code: 400, request id: 41e6b69a-a839-11e6-84b0-e9bc2ec3f81b family=ecscompose-test
ERRO[0001] Create task definition failed                 error=AccessDeniedException: User: arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXX:user/foo is not authorized to perform: ecs:RegisterTaskDefinition on resource: *
    status code: 400, request id: 41e6b69a-a839-11e6-84b0-e9bc2ec3f81b
FATA[0001] AccessDeniedException: User: arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXX:user/foo is not authorized to perform: ecs:RegisterTaskDefinition on resource: *
    status code: 400, request id: 41e6b69a-a839-11e6-84b0-e9bc2ec3f81b 
The user have this policy attached:
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ecs:RegisterTaskDefinition",
                "ecs:ListTaskDefinitions",
                "ecs:DescribeTaskDefinition"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
I also tried attaching the AmazonEC2ContainerServiceFullAccess (that have ecs:*), but didn't work.
Found the problem, the user i was using had a policy to use MFA (MultiFactor Auth), that is not supported by the ecs-cli.
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