Create a user

Creates a user on your account. You determine the new user's account access by setting it to restricted or unrestricted:

• Unrestricted access. These users can access everything on an account.

• Restricted access. These users can only access entities or perform actions they've been given specific grants to.

After completion, the API sends a confirmation message containing password creation and login instructions to the user's email address.

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RBAC Identity and Access

If Identity and Access is enabled on your account, the restricted user is assigned the account_admin role and for restricted users you need follow this operation with assigning roles to the user. To learn more, see Identity and Access for Akamai Cloud.

Permissions and scopes

To call this operation, you need permissions, based on the model you're using:

• Identity and access permissions. Your user needs a role with these permissions. Learn more.

  • Permissions: create_user

• OAuth scopes. Your user needs these scopes assigned. Learn more.

  • Scopes: account:read_write

CLI

linode-cli users create \
  --username example_user \
  --email example_user@linode.com \
  --restricted true

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