AWS Security Cookbook

How to do it...

We can create an app client for an existing user pool as follows:

1. Go to the Amazon Cognito dashboard, click on Manage user pools, and then click on our user pool.

We can also create an app client when we create the user pool by going to the app client menu item in the sidebar.

2. Click on App Client from the sidebar.
3. Click on Add an app client.

4. Uncheck the Generate client secret option and select ADMIN_NO_SRP_AUTH and USER_PASSWORD_AUTH:

If needed, we can set attribute read and write permissions for this app client by clicking on the Set attribute read and write permissions link.

5. Click on Create app client to create ...