CognitoIdentityProvider / Client / confirm_device

confirm_device#

CognitoIdentityProvider.Client.confirm_device(**kwargs)#

Confirms tracking of the device. This API call is the call that begins device tracking. For more information about device authentication, see Working with user devices in your user pool.

Authorize this action with a signed-in user’s access token. It must include the scope aws.cognito.signin.user.admin.

Note

Amazon Cognito doesn’t evaluate Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you can’t use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you can’t grant IAM permissions in policies. For more information about authorization models in Amazon Cognito, see Using the Amazon Cognito user pools API and user pool endpoints.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.confirm_device(
    AccessToken='string',
    DeviceKey='string',
    DeviceSecretVerifierConfig={
        'PasswordVerifier': 'string',
        'Salt': 'string'
    },
    DeviceName='string'
)
Parameters:

  • AccessToken (string) –

    [REQUIRED]

    A valid access token that Amazon Cognito issued to the user whose device you want to confirm.

  • DeviceKey (string) –

    [REQUIRED]

    The device key.

  • DeviceSecretVerifierConfig (dict) –

    The configuration of the device secret verifier.

    • PasswordVerifier (string) –

      A password verifier for a user’s device. Used in SRP authentication.

    • Salt (string) –

      The salt that you want to use in SRP authentication with the user’s device.

  • DeviceName (string) – The device name.

Return type:

dict

Returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'UserConfirmationNecessary': True|False
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) –

    Confirms the device response.

    • UserConfirmationNecessary (boolean) –

      Indicates whether the user confirmation must confirm the device response.

Exceptions