User (Object):Add User

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Add User

POST /object/users

Creates a user for a specified namespace. The user must subsequently be assigned a secret key in order to access the object store.

Required Roles

Requires one of the following roles:

SYSTEM_ADMIN
NAMESPACE_ADMIN

Request Payload

<user_create_param>
   <user></user>
   <namespace></namespace>
   <tags>
      <tag>
         <name></name>
         <value></value>
      </tag>
   </tags>
</user_create_param>

{
  "user": "",
  "namespace": "",
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "",
      "value": ""
    }
  ]
}

All parameters are required unless otherwise stated.

Field	Description	Type	Notes
user_create_param
user	User to be created	String
namespace	Namespace identifier to associate with the user	String
tags	A list of arbitrary tags to assign to the new user. These can be used to track additional information about the user.
tag			0-* Elements
name	The name of a tag	String
value	The value of a tag	String

Response Body

Newly created user details.

Field	Description	Type	Notes
user_secret_key
secret_key	Secret key	String
key_timestamp	Secret key creation timestamp in ISO-8601 format	String	Valid Values: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm'Z'
key_expiry_timestamp	Secret key expiry timestamp in ISO-8601 format	String	Valid Values: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm'Z'
link	A link for this resource

Examples

Request

POST https://192.168.0.0:4443/object/users HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/xml
X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: <AUTH_TOKEN>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user_create_param>
   <user>wuser1@SANITY.LOCAL</user>
   <namespace>s3</namespace>
</user_create_param>

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user_secret_key>
   <secret_key> </secret_key>
   <link href="/object/user-secret-keys/wuser1@sanity.local"
      rel="self"/>
</user_secret_key>

Request

POST https://192.168.0.0:4443/object/users.json HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/json
X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: <AUTH_TOKEN>

{
	"namespace": "s3",
	"user": "wuser1@SANITY.LOCAL"
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "user_secret_key": {
    "secret_key": " ",
    "link": {
      "-href": "/object/user-secret-keys/wuser1@sanity.local",
      "-rel": "self"
    }
  }
}

Request

cat body.txt

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user_create_param>
   <user>wuser1@SANITY.LOCAL</user>
   <namespace>s3</namespace>
</user_create_param>

curl -H $token -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X POST --data @body.txt https://$nodeIp:4443/object/users

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user_secret_key>
   <secret_key> </secret_key>
   <link href="/object/user-secret-keys/wuser1@sanity.local"
      rel="self"/>
</user_secret_key>