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Prerequisites

Before you create other users:

  1. Review the [access control overview]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.8/security/access-control">}}) to learn how to use role-based access control (RBAC) to manage users' cluster access and database access.

  2. Create roles you can assign to users. See [Create roles with cluster access only]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.8/security/access-control/create-cluster-roles">}}), [Create roles with database access only]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.8/security/access-control/create-db-roles">}}), or [Create roles with combined access]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.8/security/access-control/create-combined-roles">}}) for instructions.

Add users

To add a user to the cluster:

  1. From the Access Control > Users tab in the Cluster Manager UI, select + Add user.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/access-control-user-panel.png" alt="Add role with name" >}}

  2. Enter the name, email, and password of the new user.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/access-control-user-add.png" alt="Add role with name" >}}

  3. Assign a Role to the user to grant permissions for cluster management and data access.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/access-control-user-role-select.png" width="300px" alt="Add role to user." >}}

  4. Select the Alerts the user should receive by email:

    • Receive alerts for databases - The alerts that are enabled for the selected databases will be sent to the user. Choose All databases or Customize to select the individual databases to send alerts for.

    • Receive cluster alerts - The alerts that are enabled for the cluster in Cluster > Alerts Settings are sent to the user.

  5. Select Save.

Assign roles to users

Assign a role, associated with specific databases and access control lists (ACLs), to a user to grant database access:

  1. From the Access Control > Users tab in the Cluster Manager UI, you can:

    • Point to an existing user and select {{< image filename="/images/rs/buttons/edit-button.png#no-click" alt="The Edit button" width="25px" class="inline" >}} to edit the user.

    • Select + Add user to [create a new user]({{< relref "/operate/rs/7.8/security/access-control/create-users" >}}).

  2. Select a role to assign to the user.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/access-control-user-role-select.png" width="300px" alt="Add role to user." >}}

  3. Select Save.

Next steps

Depending on the type of the user's assigned role (cluster management role or data access role), the user can now:

  • [Connect to a database]({{< relref "/operate/rs/7.8/databases/connect" >}}) associated with the role and run limited Redis commands, depending on the role's Redis ACLs.

  • Sign in to the Redis Enterprise Software Cluster Manager UI.

  • Make a [REST API]({{< relref "/operate/rs/7.8/references/rest-api" >}}) request.