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mongocli iam users invite
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Create a MongoDB user for your MongoDB application and invite the MongoDB user to your organizations and projects.
A MongoDB user account grants access only to the the MongoDB application. To grant database access, create a database user with mongocli dbusers create.
Syntax
Command Syntax
mongocli iam users invite [options]
Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--country | string | false | ISO 3166-1 alpha two-letter country code of the user's geographic location. The Atlas CLI requires this option. |
--email | string | true | Email address for the user. |
--firstName | string | true | First or given name for the user. |
-h, --help | false | help for invite | |
--lastName | string | true | Last name, family name, or surname for the user. |
--mobile | string | false | Mobile phone number for the user. |
--orgRole | strings | false | Unique 24-digit string that identifies the organization, colon, and the user's role for the organization. Specify this value as orgID:ROLE. To learn which values MCLI accepts, see the Items Enum for roles in the Atlas API spec: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/api-resources-spec/#operation/createOrganizationInvitation/. |
-o, --output | string | false | Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option. |
--password | string | false | Password for the user. |
--projectRole | strings | false | Unique 24-digit string that identifies the project, colon, and the user's role for the project. Specify this value as projectID:ROLE. Valid values for ROLE include GROUP_CLUSTER_MANAGER, GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN, GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY, GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE, GROUP_OWNER, GROUP_READ_ONLY, GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN, GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN, and GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN. |
--username | string | true | Name that identifies the user. You must specify a valid email address. |
Inherited Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
-P, --profile | string | false | Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for MongoCLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-configuration-file. |
Examples
# Create the MongoDB user with the username user@example.com and invite them to the organization with the ID 5dd56c847a3e5a1f363d424d with ORG_OWNER access: mongocli users invite --email user@example.com --username user@example.com --orgRole 5dd56c847a3e5a1f363d424d:ORG_OWNER --firstName Example --lastName User --country US --output json
# Create the MongoDB user with the username user@example.com and invite them to the project with the ID 5f71e5255afec75a3d0f96dc with GROUP_READ_ONLY access: mongocli users invite --email user@example.com --username user@example.com --projectRole 5f71e5255afec75a3d0f96dc:GROUP_READ_ONLY --firstName Example --lastName User --country US --output json