Managing machine users in your organization

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Machine users

A machine user can drive programmatic access to EDB Postgres AI. This access can take place by way of user-customized automation scripts, EDB Postgres AI CLI commands, Terraform manifest, or EDB Postgres AI's first-party binaries that run from your environment.

  • Any user with the organization's owner role can create, update, and delete a machine user.
  • The organization owner can be a user authenticated by way of IDP (Identity Provider) or a machine user.
  • An organization owner can manage the access key for the machine user but not for the normal user.
  • The organization owner and project owner can assign and un-assign the roles to any machine user in the same organization.
  • EDB Postgres AI's authorization system performs permission checks on machine users as well as normal users.
  • The machine user belongs to only one organization and can't switch to another organization.
  • The machine user can't invite users, and the only way to authenticate and authorize a machine user is with an access key.
Note

There is quota limit for the number of machine users if you hit it and need more, please contact our support team.

Adding a machine user

Only the organization owner can add a machine user.

To add a machine user:

  1. From the menu next to your organization name in the top right of the portal, select User Management.
  2. Select Add New User.
  3. Select Machine User as the user type.
  4. Provide the Username.
  5. Optionally, provide the Email ID.
  6. Optionally, select the Create Access Key checkbox.
    • If you select the checkbox, EDB Postgres AI creates an access key for this user.
    • If you don't select the checkbox, no access key is created while adding this user. You can create the access key for this user from the user's home page later.
  7. Provide the Access Key Name.
  8. Select a value for Expires in (1-365 Day/s) field to set the lifetime of the access key.
  9. To save the settings and provide the generated access key for the user, select Add User.

Copy and this access key and save it in a secure location. The access key is available only when you create it. If you lose your access key, you must delete it and create a new one. For more information, see Access key.

Assign some organization role or project role to this newly created machine user. For more information, see users.

Note

The user management on EDB Postgres AI's UI at project level can assign the project roles to the machine user, but it cannot manage the machine users or their access keys.

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