Use ListUserPolicies with an Amazon SDK or CLI

To list policies for an IAM user

The following list-user-policies command lists the policies that are attached to the IAM user named Bob.

aws iam list-user-policies \
    --user-name Bob

Output:

{
    "PolicyNames": [
        "ExamplePolicy",
        "TestPolicy"
    ]
}

For more information, see Creating an IAM user in your Amazon account in the Amazon IAM User Guide.

// UserWrapper encapsulates user actions used in the examples.
// It contains an IAM service client that is used to perform user actions.
type UserWrapper struct {
	IamClient *iam.Client
}



// ListUserPolicies lists the inline policies for the specified user.
func (wrapper UserWrapper) ListUserPolicies(userName string) ([]string, error) {
	var policies []string
	result, err := wrapper.IamClient.ListUserPolicies(context.TODO(), &iam.ListUserPoliciesInput{
		UserName: aws.String(userName),
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Couldn't list policies for user %v. Here's why: %v\n", userName, err)
	} else {
		policies = result.PolicyNames
	}
	return policies, err
}

Example 1: This example retrieves the list of names of the inline policies that are embedded in the IAM user named David.

Get-IAMUserPolicyList -UserName David

Output:

Davids_IAM_Admin_Policy