With OVHcloud, you can create additional users with read or write access to your customer account. This means that you can grant other members of your company access to your OVHcloud services, without having to resort to risky practices like sharing passwords or two-factor authentication details.
The purpose of contact management is to delegate full management of the administrative, technical and billing aspects of one or more services on your OVHcloud account.
This guide details the privileges a user can hold, as well as the method for adding and managing users.
Requirements
- An active OVHcloud account
- Access to the OVHcloud Control Panel
Instructions
User management
Add a user
Log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel.
- Click your name in the top right-hand corner.
- Click on your initials.
- Next, click on the
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Add a user.
A window will pop up, and you will need to complete the required fields. Click Confirm to create the user.
The user then gets their own ID made up of your account’s numeric ID (which is listed in the “User management” menu) and their username, with the two values separated by a “/”.
Example: 1234-567-89/johnsmith.
The user you have created can then log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel using this ID.
They can also change their password and secure their own access to your account by enabling two-factor authentication (this is only for their access as a user). To find out how to enable two-factor authentication, you can refer to this guide.
Manage users
You can disable/enable or remove a user by clicking on the … button to the right of the user’s name.
When you edit a user you can update their email address, role, and description.
Group management
Add a group
On the User management tab, click on Declare a group.
A window will pop up and you will need to complete the required fields. Click Confirm to create the user.
Groups give a default privilege level for the users they contain, according to the role you choose:
Manage groups
You can update or remove a group by clicking on the … button to the right of the group name.
When you edit a group you can update its description and role.
Rights management
On top of the role assigned to user groups, you can fine-tune access privileges using OVHcloud IAM.
Go further
For more information and tutorials, please see our other OVHcloud Control Panel support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.