ovhcloud_cloud_user_create.md

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ovhcloud cloud user create

Create a new user

ovhcloud cloud user create [flags]

Options

      --description string   Description of the user
      --editor               Use a text editor to define parameters
      --from-file string     File containing parameters
  -h, --help                 help for create
      --init-file string     Create a file with example parameters
      --replace              Replace parameters file if it already exists
      --roles stringArray    Roles assigned to the user

Options inherited from parent commands

      --cloud-project string   Cloud project ID
  -d, --debug                  Activate debug mode (will log all HTTP requests details)
  -e, --ignore-errors          Ignore errors in API calls when it is not fatal to the execution
  -o, --output string          Output format: json, yaml, interactive, or a custom format expression (using https://github.com/PaesslerAG/gval syntax)
                               Examples:
                                 --output json
                                 --output yaml
                                 --output interactive
                                 --output 'id' (to extract a single field)
                                 --output 'nested.field.subfield' (to extract a nested field)
                                 --output '[id, "name"]' (to extract multiple fields as an array)
                                 --output '{"newKey": oldKey, "otherKey": nested.field}' (to extract and rename fields in an object)
                                 --output 'name+","+type' (to extract and concatenate fields in a string)
                                 --output '(nbFieldA + nbFieldB) * 10' (to compute values from numeric fields)
      --profile string         Use a specific profile from the configuration file

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