You can manage users with the cf CLI. On this page, learn how to view users by role, assign roles, and remove roles from a user.
Operations Manager uses role-based access control, with each role granting permissions in either an organization or an application space.
For more information, see Organizations, spaces, roles, and permissions.
About roles
To manage all users, organizations, and roles with the Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI), log in with your admin credentials. In Tanzu Operations Manager, see the Credentials tab in the TAS for VMs tile for the admin name and password.
If the feature flag set_roles_by_username is enabled, Org Managers can assign org roles to existing users in their org and Space Managers can assign space roles to existing users in their space. For more information about using feature flags, see the Feature Flags topic.
Creating and deleting users
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FUNCTION COMMAND EXAMPLE Create a new user cf create-user USERNAME PASSWORDcf create-user Alice pa55w0rd
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<td>Create a new user, and prompt for password for better security</td>
<td>cf create-user USERNAME --password-prompt</td>
<td><code>cf create-user Alice</code></td>
cf create-user Aayah ldap
<td>Create a new user, specifying SAML or OpenID Connect as an external identity provider</td>
<td>cf create-user USERNAME --origin ORIGIN</td>
<td><code>cf create-user Aiko provider-alias</code></td>
cf delete-user Alice
Creating administrator accounts
To create a new administrator account, use the UAA CLI.
The cf CLI cannot create new administrator accounts.
Org and app space roles
A user can have one or more roles. The combination of these roles defines the user’s overall permissions in the org and within specific app spaces in that org.
Org roles
Valid org roles are OrgManager, BillingManager, and OrgAuditor.
| FUNCTION | COMMAND | EXAMPLE |
|---|---|---|
| View the organizations belonging to an account | cf orgs | cf orgs |
| View all users in an organization by role | cf org-users ORGANIZATION-NAME | cf org-users my-example-org |
| Assign an org role to a user | cf set-org-role USERNAME ORGANIZATION-NAME ROLE | cf set-org-role Alice my-example-org OrgManager |
| Remove an org role from a user | cf unset-org-role USERNAME ORGANIZATION-NAME ROLE | cf unset-org-role Alice my-example-org OrgManager |
If multiple accounts share a username, set-org-role and unset-org-role return an error. See Identical Usernames in Multiple Origins for details.
App space roles
Each app space role applies to a specific app space.
Valid app space roles are SpaceManager, SpaceDeveloper, and SpaceAuditor.
| FUNCTION | COMMAND | EXAMPLE |
|---|---|---|
| View the spaces in an org | cf spaces | cf spaces |
| View all users in a space by role | cf space-users ORGANIZATION-NAME SPACE-NAME | cf space-users my-example-org development |
| Assign a space role to a user | cf set-space-role USERNAME ORGANIZATION-NAME SPACE-NAME ROLE | cf set-space-role Alice my-example-org development SpaceAuditor |
| Remove a space role from a user | cf unset-space-role USERNAME ORGANIZATION-NAME SPACE-NAME ROLE | cf unset-space-role Alice my-example-org development SpaceAuditor |
If multiple accounts share a username, set-space-role and unset-space-role return an error. See Identical Usernames in Multiple Origins for details.
