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User and Workspace management commands

This page describes all commands that allow users and workspaces to be managed with their options (see also common options available for all commands).
Command
Description
create a workspace
update a workspace
delete a workspace
list users
create a user
describe a user
update user profile
update user password
delete a user
Notice: an Akamas workspace (user) is an Akamas resource (see list of Akamas resources) so you can also refer to resource management commands.

Create workspace

The create workspace command allows defining a new workspace:
akamas create workspace NAME
The following snippet shows an example:
akamas create workspace 'New Workspace'

Update workspace

The update workspace command allows updating the workspace name:
akamas update workspace [OPTIONS] IDENTIFIER
with the following options:
Option
Required
Description
--name TEXT
yes
New workspace name
The following snippet shows an example:
akamas update workspace 'New Workspace' --name 'New Name'

Delete workspace

The delete workspace command allows deleting a workspace:
akamas delete workspace [OPTIONS] IDENTIFIER
with the following options:
Option
Required
Description
-y
no
Show this message and exit
The following snippet shows an example:
akamas delete workspace 'New Workspace'

List users

The list users command returns the list of the available users.
akamas list users
The following snippet shows an example:
$ akamas list users
Id Username First Name Last Name Workspaces User Type
=======================================================================================================
66778cc3-4b01-4f3e-8921-c279600c8e07 akamas - - - Administrator
ae8bfe02-e32d-480b-92ed-30a8d8e835ef newuser new user Default W User
Workspace1 R

Create user

The create user command allows defining a new user and assigning it to one or more workspaces.
akamas create user [OPTIONS]
with the following options
Option
Required
Description
-u, --username TEXT
yes
Username
-p, --password TEXT
yes
Password
--first-name TEXT
no
User first name
--last-name TEXT
no
User last name
--email TEXT
no
Valid email
-w, --add-to-workspace TEXT
no
Add the user to the specified workspace with the specified role (R|W) (e.g., --add-to-workspace WORKSPACE_A R). The option can be specified multiple times to add more workspaces.
--admin
no
Specify if you want to give Administration privileges to the user
The default policy requires the password to satisfy the following rules:
  • Include one or more uppercase characters (A-Z)
  • Include one or more special characters (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/)
The username and password can be either provided interactively or as command arguments.
The following snippet shows the process of creating a new user interactively:
$ akamas create user
Username: newuser
Password:
Repeat for confirmation:
User first name: John
User last name: Doe
The same action can be performed using the command options:
$ akamas create user -u newuser -p P455w0rd

Describe user

The describe user command returns the detail of a valid user matching the provided username or id:
akamas describe user IDENTIFIER
Notice: users without administrative privileges can only describe their profiles, while administrators can inspect any profile.
The following snippet shows an example:
$ akamas describe user newuser
Id | a81fd6e5-aedc-4b74-b6d2-40650441935b
Username | newuser
First Name | new
Last Name | user
Workspaces | - Default R
| - Workspace1 W
User Type | User

Update user

The update user command allows updating the user profile attributes for the user matching the username or id:
akamas update user [OPTIONS] IDENTIFIER
with the following options:
Option
Required
Description
--first-name TEXT
no
User first name
--last-name TEXT
no
User last name
--email TEXT
no
Valid email
-w, --add-to-workspace TEXT
no
Add the user to the specified workspace with the specified role (R|W) (e.g., --add-to-workspace WORKSPACE_A R). The option can be specified multiple times to add more workspaces.
-r, --remove-from-workspace TEXT
no
Remove the user from the specified workspace
--admin
no
Specify if you want to give Administration privileges to the user
--no-admin
no
Specify if you want to remove Administration privileges to the user
The following snippet shows an example of updating the email of a user:
akamas update user --email '[email protected]' newuser
This command is also used to grant or revoke access to workspaces and administrative privileges to users.
The following snippet shows an example of updating the user’s workspace access privileges, adding write privileges on Workspace 1, and revoking access on Default:
akamas update user -w 'Workspace 1' W -r Default newuser

Update password

The update password command updates the password for the user matching the username or id:
akamas update password [OPTIONS] IDENTIFIER
with the following options:
Option
Required
Description
-p, --password TEXT
yes
New password
Notice: users without administrative privileges can update only their own password, while administrators can perform this action on any profile.
The default policy requires the password to satisfy the following rules:
  • Include one or more uppercase characters (A-Z)
  • Include one or more special characters (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/)
The password can be either provided interactively or as command arguments.
The following snippet shows an example of updating interactively the password for a user:
$ akamas update password newuser
New password:
Repeat for confirmation:
The same action can be performed using the command options:
akamas update password -p P455w0rd newuser

Delete user

The delete user command removes the user with the provided username or id:
akamas delete user IDENTIFIER
with the following options:
Option
Required
Description
-y
no
Automatic yes to prompts
The following snippet shows an example of deleting interactively a user:
akamas delete user newuser
Confirm deletion of newuser [y/N]: y