euare-useraddkey

Adds a new access key to the user sending the request, unless otherwise specified. Eucalyptus prints the secret access key to the console. We recommend that you write this to a file.

Syntax

euare-useraddkey [-w] [-d DOMAIN] [-l] [--as-account ACCOUNT] [-U URL]

  [--region USER@REGION] [-I KEY_ID] [-S KEY]
  [--security-token TOKEN] [--debug] [--debugger] [--version] [-h]    USER

Positional Arguments

Argument	Description
`USER`	The user to whom the new key will belong (default: current user).

Options

Option	Description	Required
`-w, --write-config`	Output access keys and region information in the form of a euca2ools.ini(5) configuration file instead of by themselves.	No
`-d, --domain` DOMAIN	DNS domain to use for region information in configuration file output (default: based on IAM URL).	No
`-l, --set-default-user`	Set this user as the default user for the region in the euca2ools.ini configuration file output. This option is only useful when used with the `-w` parameter.	No
`--as-account` `ACCOUNT`	[Eucalyptus cloud admin only] Run this command as the administrator of another account.	No

Common Options

Option	Description
`--region=region`	Region to direct requests to.
`-U url,--url=url`	Override service URL with this value.
`--as-account account`	This Eucalyptus extension is for use by the system administrator to act as the account administrator of the specified account without changing to account administrator's role.
`-I access_key_id, --access-key=access_key_id`	Override configured access key ID with this value.
`-S secret_key, --secret-key=secret_key`	Override configured secret key with this value.
`--security-token=token`	Security token.
`-D, --debug`	Prints what the command sends to the server and what it receives from the server. Use when you're trying to debug Euca2ools.
`--debugger`	Enable interactive debugger on error.
`-h,--help`	Display the manual page for the command.
`--version`	Display the version of this tool.

Output

Access key ID
Secret access key

Example

The following example generates new keys for the user who owns the requesting credentials.

euare-useraddkey
UDHYLIGYKLURDIBAIUEMJ
0VhKjLs4QVA8F3o9Xl2bFhheQJL0K5I30kByFGdm

The following example generates new keys for myuser.

euare-useraddkey myuser
JMEUIABIDRULKYGILYHDU
mdGFyBk03I5K0LJQehhFb2lX9o3F8AVQ4sLjKhV0

The following example adds keys for the user 'alice' and writes them to a file named alice.ini:

euare-useraddkey alice -w > ~/.euca/alice.ini