IAM commands not woking in AWS CLI

Question

I have my AWS CLI working fine with all the AWS commands but when I use an IAM command it fails.

[user@web1:~] #aws iam create-account-alias --account-alias=mcollective

An error occurred (InvalidClientTokenId) when calling the CreateAccountAlias operation: The security token included in the request is invalid.

Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

The best fix for this can be as follows:

Change your user to root and then run this command

aws iam create-account-alias --account-alias=mcollective

This should work.