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mc admin accesskey create
Syntax
The mc admin accesskey create command adds a new access key and secret key pair for an existing MinIO user.
Access keys for OpenID Connect or AD/LDAP users
This command is for access keys for users created directly on the MinIO deployment and not managed by a third party solution.
To generate access keys for OpenID Connect users, use the MinIO Console.
To generate access keys for Active Directory/LDAP users, use
mc idp ldap accesskey create.
The following command creates a new access key associated to an existing MinIO user:
mc admin accesskey create \
myminio/ myuser \
--access-key myuseraccesskey \
--secret-key myusersecretkey \
--policy /path/to/policy.json
The command returns the access key and secret key for the new account.
The command has the following syntax:
mc [GLOBALFLAGS] admin accesskey create \
ALIAS \
[USER] \
[--access-key string] \
[--secret-key string] \
[--policy path] \
[--name string] \
[--description string] \
[--expiry-duration value] \
[--expiry date]
Brackets
[]indicate optional parameters.Parameters sharing a line are mutually dependent.
Parameters separated using the pipe
|operator are mutually exclusive.
Copy the example to a text editor and modify as-needed before running the command in the terminal/shell.
Parameters
- ALIAS
- Required
The
aliasof the MinIO deployment.
- USER
- Optional
The username of the user to which MinIO adds the new access key. If not specified, MinIO generates an access key/secret key pair for the authenticated user.
- --access-key
- Optional
A string to use as the access key for this account. Omit to let MinIO autogenerate a random 20 character value.
Access Key names must be unique across all users.
- --description
- Optional
Add a description for the access key. For example, you might specify the reason the access key exists.
- --expiry
- Optional
Set an expiration date for the access key. The date must be in the future. You may not set an expiration date that has already passed.
Allowed date and time formats:
2024-10-242024-10-24T10:002024-10-24T10:00:002024-10-24T10:00:00Z2024-10-24T10:00:00-07:00
Mutually exclusive with
--expiry-duration.
- --expiry-duration
- Optional
Length of time for which the accesskey remains valid.
For example,
30m, ``24h,30d, or similar. The following expires the credentials after 30 days:--expiry-duration 30d
Mutually exclusive with
--expiry.
- --policy
- Optional
The readable path to a policy document to attach to the new access key, with a maximum size of 2048 characters. The attached policy cannot grant access to any action or resource not explicitly allowed by the parent user’s policy or group policies
Global Flags
This command supports any of the global flags.
Examples
Create access key / secret key pair for the authenticated user
The following command generates a new, random access key and secret key pair for the user currently logged in to MinIO deployment at the alias myminio.
The access key and secret key have the same access policies as the authenticated user.
mc admin accesskey create myminio/
Create a custom access key / secret key pair for the authenticated user
The following command creates a new access key and secret key pair for the user currently logged in to MinIO at the alias myminio.
The access key and secret key have the same access policies as the authenticated user.
mc admin accesskey create myminio/ --access-key myaccesskey --secret-key mysecretkey
Create an access key / secret key pair for another user with limited duration
The following command creates a new access key and secret key pair for a user, miniouser on the alias myminio.
The access key and secret key have the same access policies as miniouser.
The credentials remain valid for 24 hours after creation.
mc admin accesskey create myminio/ miniouser --expiry-duration 24h
Create access key / secret key pair for the authenticated user that expires
The following command generates a new and random access key and random secret key pair for the user currently logged in to MinIO deployment at the alias myminio.
The access key and secret key have the same access policies as the authenticated user.
The credentials expire on the fifteenth day of January, 2025.
mc admin accesskey create myminio/ --expiry 2025-01-15
The date specified must be a future date.
For valid datetime formats, see the --expiry flag.
Create access key / secret key pair for a different user with custom access
The following command creates a new access key and secret key pair for the user, miniouser on the alias myminio.
The access key and secret key have a more limited set of access than miniouser, as specified in the policy JSON file.
mc admin accesskey create myminio/ miniouser --policy /path/to/policy.json
The specified policy file must not grant access to anything to which miniouser does not already have access.
Behavior
S3 Compatibility
The mc commandline tool is built for compatibility with the AWS S3 API and is tested with MinIO and AWS S3 for expected functionality and behavior.
MinIO provides no guarantees for other S3-compatible services, as their S3 API implementation is unknown and therefore unsupported. While mc commands may work as documented, any such usage is at your own risk.
