Creating a Group
You can create a group in your account to manage the same set of permissions for a several users.
After creating a group, you need to add users and apply permissions to it. For more information, see Adding or Removing a User from a Group and Managing Policies to Access Your Resources.
Creating a Group Using OSC CLI
See the CreateGroup command sample in the documentation of the EIM API. |
Creating a Group Using AWS CLI
To create a group, use the create-group command following this syntax:
$ aws iam create-group \
--profile YOUR_PROFILE \
--group-name GROUP_NAME \
[--path NOT_SPECIFIED] \
--endpoint https://eim.eu-west-2.outscale.com
This command contains the following attributes that you need to specify:
-
(optional)
profile
: The named profile you want to use, created when configuring AWS CLI. For more information, see Installing and Configuring AWS CLI. -
group-name
: The name for the group you want to create.This name must be unique and must contain between 1 and 128 characters. Allowed characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and +=,.@-_.
-
(optional)
path
: The path for the group (if you do not specify any value, it is set to a slash/
). For more information, see Resource Identifiers. -
endpoint
: The endpoint corresponding to the Region you want to send the request to.
The create-group command returns the following elements:
-
Group
: Information about the newly created group. This element contains the following information:-
Path
: The path for the group. -
CreateDate
: The date and time of creation of the group. -
GroupId
: The ID of the group. -
Arn
: The OUTSCALE Resource Name (ORN) of the group. For more information, see Resource Identifiers. -
GroupName
: The common name of the group.
-
{
"Group": {
"Path": "/",
"CreateDate": "2016-05-12T06:30:24.165Z",
"GroupId": "LMGPOKFGVV8K6LEXAMPLE",
"Arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:group/GROUP_NAME",
"GroupName": "GROUP_NAME
}
}
The group is created in your account.
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