IAM permissions for root user in AWS aurora RDS

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I have an aurora instance with IAM authentication enabled I have create an IAM role with full access to rds:*

when using that IAM role and trying to connect with the root user following these instructions

I get an error , Access denied for user 'root'@'ip' (using password: YES)

  1. Why is there using password:YES when I'm using IAM auth
  2. Should I be adding rds-db permission explicitly to the root user ?
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Following on this , what I ended up doing :

  1. Created a user using root user password authentication following these instructions
  2. For the user I created I gave the following IAM creds : rds-db:connect