Document Password Recovery (Reset) for Master Credentials

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what

• Show how to do the password reset

why

• When creating new AWS accounts programmatically (e.g. via terraform) it's essential to reset the password of the child account(s) in order to log in and configure MFA. If you don't a friendly hacker will.

refernces

Then after resetting the password, setup MFA.

Then to proceed to setup your device as usual.

IMPORTANT These credentials must be kept extremely secure and should not be shared. Use IAM to delegate access to user accounts.