Set account recovery preference

[pjlangley]

Description

It'll be useful if we can set the user account recovery preference. The default without specification selects an option that's no longer recommended by AWS.

For example, I may want to set this to Email only instead, as annotated by the red rectangle in the image below:

As per my understanding, this doesn't yet appear to be supported by this resource.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_cognito_user_pool

References

• My original query on SO; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59120055

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[hildoer]

+1

[ghost]

+1

[mtraynham]

+1

[tonesp]

+1

[davesalomon]

+1. On the plus side, there's been a recent change (for the better) to the defaults for Account Recovery. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito-user-identity-pools/latest/APIReference/API_CreateUserPool.html#CognitoUserPools-CreateUserPool-request-AccountRecoverySetting.

Starting February 1, 2020, the value of AccountRecoverySetting will default to verified_email first and verified_phone_number as the second option for newly created user pools if no value is provided.

[emulanob]

@davesalomon I created a few user pools today and they defaulted to the Not Recommended option.

[AlejandroGalAtSportBLX]

+1

[jeffrystev]

Did the above issue resolved ? Do we have any new parameters in terraform in order to update the recovery of account configuration in cognito . If so kindly update the newly added parameter over here.

[davesalomon]

Fairly sure this is still outstanding. AWS have also reverted their documentation back to 'Prefer SMS' 😞

In the absence of this setting, Cognito uses the legacy behavior to determine the recovery method where SMS is preferred over email.

[ScratZa]

Has there been any communication with regards to this ?

Am I correct in assuming that the only work around is the local exec route ? I've seen quite a few people mentioning they would prefer not to use local exec - is there a reason for this ?

thanks a bunch

[breathingdust]

Hi all! 👋 Just wanted to direct you to our public roadmap for this quarter (Nov-Jan) in which this item has been mentioned.

Due to the significant community interest in support for this feature, we will be looking at merging existing contributions soon.

We appreciate all the contributions and feedback thus far.

Look out for support in the provider soon!

[ghost]

I'm going to lock this issue because it has been closed for 30 days ⏳. This helps our maintainers find and focus on the active issues.

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