Creates a Resource Access Management (RAM) user.
Operation description
This topic provides an example on how to create a RAM user named alice.
Debugging
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 Resourcesis 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.
| Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ram:CreateUser | create |
|
| none |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UserName | string | Yes | 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 |
| DisplayName | string | No | The display name of the RAM user. The display name must be 1 to 128 characters in length. | alice |
| MobilePhone | string | No | 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**** |
| string | No | The email address of the RAM user. Note
This parameter applies only to the China site (aliyun.com).
| alice@example.com | |
| Comments | string | No | 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
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.
Change history
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