Create users under an alias - api

Question

I'm trying to create an user under an alias. for eg. Say I've a company and my AWS account is My-Org-007 and under this I can create users. But I want to do this using API. when I went through the documentation, it is given as below.
https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateUser
&Path=/division_abc/subdivision_xyz/
&UserName=Bob
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
Here I'm confused about the Path(where can I get the path) and AUTHPARAMS(I have Access key ID and Secret access key, are these that I need and how d I access it in API Call).
please let me know on how I can do it using the API.
Thanks

Answer 1

Unless you have a very compelling reason to use AWS APIs directly, you would want to use the AWS SDKs. SDKs make your life a lot easy in achieving what you want. Check CreateUser documentation here for NodeJS SDK(SDKs for other programming languages like Go, Java, Python, .Net, C++ ... are also available for you to use): http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/IAM.html
/* The following create-user command creates an IAM user named Bob in the current account. */
var params = {
UserName: "Bob"
};
iam.createUser(params, function(err, data) {
if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
else console.log(data); // successful response
/*
data = {
User: {
Arn: "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Bob",
CreateDate: <Date Representation>,
Path: "/",
UserId: "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
UserName: "Bob"
}
}
*/
});
Calling the createUser operation
var params = {
UserName: 'STRING_VALUE', /* required */
Path: 'STRING_VALUE'
};
iam.createUser(params, function(err, data) {
if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
else console.log(data); // successful response
});