User

Manage a user in the Opal internal user directory.

opal user <CREDENTIALS> [OPTIONS] [EXTRAS]

Options

Option	Description
--name NAME, -n NAME	User name
--fetch, -f	Fetch a user (all users are returned if no option –name is given)
--delete, -de	Delete the user specified by the –name option
--add, -a	Add a user specified by the –name option
--update, -ud	Update user password/certificate, status (enable/disable) and groups
--upassword PWD, -upa PWD	User password of at least six characters.
--ucertificate CERT, -uc CERT	User certificate (public key) file
--disabled, -di	Disable user account (if omitted the user is enabled by default).
--groups GRP [GRP ...], -g GRP [GRP ...]	User groups (separated by space)

Credentials

Authentication can be done by username/password credentials OR by personal access token OR by certificate/private key pair (two-way SSL authentication).

Option	Description
--opal OPAL, -o OPAL	Opal server base url
--user USER, -u USER	Credentials auth: user name (requires a password)
--password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD	Credentials auth: user password (requires a user name)
--token TOKEN, -tk TOKEN	Token auth: user’s personal access token
--ssl-cert SSL_CERT, -sc SSL_CERT	Two-way SSL auth: certificate/public key file (requires a private key)
--ssl-key SSL_KEY, -sk SSL_KEY	Two-way SSL auth: private key file (requires a certificate)

Extras

Option	Description
-h, --help	Show the command help’s message.
--verbose, -v	Verbose output.
--json, -j	Output pretty-print JSON

Example

Get the list of users with associated groups

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --fetch

Get a specific user with associated groups

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --fetch --name user1

Create the user user2

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --add --name user2 --upassword 123456

Create the user user3 with a certificate

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --ucertificate /path/to/certifcate.pem --add --name user3

Create the user (disabled) user4 with groups group1, group2 and group3

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --add --name user4 --disabled --upassword 123456 --groups  group1 group2 group3

Update user2’s password

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --update --name user2 --upassword 987654

Update user2’s status, set to disabled

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --update --name user2 --disabled

Update user2’s status, set to enabled

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --update --name user2

Update user2’s groups

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --update --name user2 --groups group1 group2

Delete the user user3

opal user --opal https://opal-demo.obiba.org --user administrator --password password --delete --name user2