AWS-Cognito: How to sign in user with email or username

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During AWS Cogito User Pool there are two options for how to let users sign in. One of them is

Username - Users can use a username and optionally multiple alternatives to sign up and sign in.

Also allow sign in with verified email address

I have selected the above and while testing it using aws-amplify I always get __type: "NotAuthorizedException" message: "Incorrect username or password." if I try to sign in with email but it works fine when I try to sign in with the username.

Here is my signin method 

Auth.signIn(email, password)
  .then(r => {
    setLoggedIn(true);
  })
  .catch(r => {
    setLoggedIn(false);
  })

};

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3 Answers

I know this is an old thread, but I've recently had this problem and had to figure it out. When you have a user in your user pool that does not have the email_verified set to True, the Auth.signIn method will only work with that user's username.

Not only that, but the Auth.forgotPassword method won't send the code to the user's e-mail. There's possibly more interactions like these.

Make sure you confirm your user's email, that's all!

If you are using a backend to create your users, you can simply do this by:

const signUpParams = {
  UserPoolId: "YOUR_USER_POOL_ID",
  TemporaryPassword: "TEMP_PW",
  Username: "username",
  UserAttributes: [
    {
      Name: 'email',
      Value: "USER_EMAIL",
    },
    {
      Name: 'email_verified',
      Value: 'true',
    },
  ],
};

const { User } = await cognitoService.adminCreateUser(signUpParams).promise();
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aws cognito is case sensitive example if you registered your email with Siyavash@email.com then you cannot sign in with siyavash@email.com

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My vuex store action for login: You may need to set the attribute name to username

async login({ commit },{ email, password }) {
    const user =  await Auth.signIn({ username: email, password });
    commit('set', user)
    return user;
  },
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