Users

Version 5.6.0 introduces the ability to interact with user accounts from the cli.

user create

This command will create a user on your account.

Options

-e, --email TEXT
 Email address for this user. Required for creation. [required]
-p, --password TEXT
 Password to set for this user. If no password is provided, user will be sent an email to generate one, which expires in 24 hours. ‘-p generate’ will create a password for you (Requires Python 3.6+). Passwords require 8+ characters, upper and lowercase, a number and a symbol.
-u, --from-user TEXT
 Base user to use as a template for creating this user. Will default to the user running this command. Information provided in –template supersedes this template.
-t, --template TEXT
 A json string describing https://softlayer.github.io/reference/datatypes/SoftLayer_User_Customer/
-a, --api-key Create an API key for this user.
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
slcli user create my@email.com -e my@email.com -p generate -a -t '{"firstName": "Test", "lastName": "Testerson"}'

user list

This command will list all Active users on the account that your user has access to view. There is the option to also filter by username

user detail <user>

Gives a variety of details about a specific user. <user> can be a user id, or username. Will always print a basic set of information about the user, but there are a few extra flags to pull in more detailed information.

user detail <user> -p, –permissions

Will list the permissions the user has. To see a list of all possible permissions, or to change a user’s permissions, see user permissions <user>

user detail <user> -h, –hardware

Will list the Hardware and Dedicated Hosts the user is able to access.

user detail <user> -v, –virtual

Will list the Virtual Guests the user has access to.

user detail <user> -l, –logins

Show login history of this user for the last 30 days. IBMId Users will show logins properly, but may not show failed logins.

user detail <user> -e, –events

Shows things that are logged in the Event_Log service. Logins, reboots, reloads, and other such actions will show up here.

user permissions <user>

Will list off all permission keyNames, along with which are assigned to that specific user.

user edit-permissions

Enable or Disable specific permissions. It is possible to set multiple permissions in one command as well.

$ slcli user edit-permissions USERID --enable -p TICKET_EDIT -p TICKET_ADD -p TICKET_SEARCH

Will enable TICKET_EDIT, TICKET_ADD, and TICKET_SEARCH permissions for the USERID

user edit-details

Edit a User’s details

JSON strings should be enclosed in ‘’ and each item should be enclosed in “”

slcli user edit-details testUser -t '{"firstName": "Test", "lastName": "Testerson"}'

Options

-t, --template TEXT
 A json string describing SoftLayer_User_Customer . [required]
-h, --help Show this message and exit.