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Resource Access Management:CreateUser

Last Updated:Mar 11, 2024

Creates a Resource Access Management (RAM) user.

Operation description

This topic provides an example on how to create a RAM user named alice.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer.

Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
ram:CreateUserWrite
  • User
    acs:ram:*:{#accountId}:user/*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
UserNamestringYes

The username of the RAM user.

The username must be 1 to 64 characters in length, and can contain letters, digits, periods (.), hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

alice
DisplayNamestringNo

The display name of the RAM user.

The display name must be 1 to 128 characters in length.

alice
MobilePhonestringNo

The mobile phone number of the RAM user.

Format: Country code-Mobile phone number.

Note This parameter applies only to the China site (aliyun.com).
86-1868888****
EmailstringNo

The email address of the RAM user.

Note This parameter applies only to the China site (aliyun.com).
alice@example.com
CommentsstringNo

The description of the RAM user.

The description must be 1 to 128 characters in length.

This is a cloud computing engineer.

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
Userobject

The information about the RAM user.

DisplayNamestring

The display name of the RAM user.

alice
Emailstring

The email address of the RAM user.

Note This parameter can be returned only on the China site (aliyun.com).
alice@example.com
MobilePhonestring

The mobile phone number of the RAM user.

Note This parameter can be returned only on the China site (aliyun.com).
86-1868888****
UserIdstring

The ID of the RAM user.

122748924538****
Commentsstring

The description of the RAM user.

This is a cloud computing engineer.
CreateDatestring

The point in time when the RAM user was created. The time is displayed in UTC.

2015-01-23T12:33:18Z
UserNamestring

The username of the RAM user.

alice
RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368

After a RAM user is created, you can perform the following operations:

  • Call the CreateLoginProfile operation to allow the RAM user to log on to the Alibaba Cloud Management Console. You can also configure settings such as logon passwords for the RAM user. For more information, see CreateLoginProfile .
  • Call the CreateAccessKey operation to create an AccessKey pair for the RAM user. For more information, see CreateAccessKey .

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "User": {
    "DisplayName": "alice",
    "Email": "alice@example.com",
    "MobilePhone": "86-1868888****",
    "UserId": "122748924538****",
    "Comments": "This is a cloud computing engineer.",
    "CreateDate": "2015-01-23T12:33:18Z",
    "UserName": "alice"
  },
  "RequestId": "04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368"
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

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