# Enable a delegated admin account for Amazon Account Management
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You enable a delegated admin account so you can call the Amazon Account Management API operations for other member accounts in Amazon Organizations. After you register a delegated admin account for your organization, users and roles in that account can call the Amazon CLI and Amazon SDK operations in the `account` namespace that can work in the Organizations mode by supporting an optional `AccountId` parameter.

To register a member account in your organization as a delegated admin account, use the following procedure.

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#### [ Amazon CLI & SDKs ]

**To register a delegated admin account for the Account Management service**  
You can use the following commands to enable a delegated admin for the Account Management service.

**Minimum permissions**  
To perform these tasks, you must meet the following requirements:  
You can perform this only from the organization's management account.
Your organization must have [all features enabled](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_org_support-all-features.html).
You must have [enabled trusted access for Account Management in your organization](using-orgs-trusted-access.md).

You must specify the following service principal:

```
account.amazonaws.com
```
+ Amazon CLI: [register-delegated-administrator](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/cli/latest/reference/organizations/register-delegated-administrator.html)

  The following example registers a member account of the organization as a delegated admin for the Account Management service. 

  ```
  $ aws organizations register-delegated-administrator \
      --account-id 123456789012 \
      --service-principal account.amazonaws.com
  ```

  This command produces no output if it's successful.

  After you run this command, you can use credentials from account 123456789012 to call Account Management Amazon CLI and SDK API operations that use the `--account-id` parameter to reference member accounts in an organization.

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#### [ Amazon Web Services Management Console ]

This task isn't supported in the Amazon Account Management management console. You can perform this task only by using the Amazon CLI or an API operation from one of the Amazon SDKs.

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