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/create/user/external

URL: http://GPUDB_IP_ADDRESS:GPUDB_PORT/create/user/external

Creates a new external user (a user whose credentials are managed by an external LDAP).

Input Parameter Description

Name Type Description
name string Name of the user to be created. Must exactly match the user's name in the external LDAP, prefixed with a @. Must not be the same name as an existing user.
options map of string to strings Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

Name Type Description
status String 'OK' or 'ERROR'
message String Empty if success or an error message
data_type String 'create_user_external_request' or 'none' in case of an error
data String Empty string
data_str JSON or String

This embedded JSON represents the result of the /create/user/external endpoint:

Name Type Description
name string Value of input parameter name.
info map of string to strings Additional information.

Empty string in case of an error.