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Creating an Object Tier user

Once a minimum of one tenant has been created, you create users for the tenant. Every S3 user has a unique pair of access and private keys—both are required to provision buckets and read/write data to buckets.


You can create a new Object Tier user which is associated with a single tenant. Users cannot be members of multiple tenants and must be unique within the associated tenant, but you can use the same username across multiple tenants, with each user provided with a unique set of access keys.

Note: Lumen does not store private access keys. These keys are only provided once—when you create a user. Store them in text format somewhere on your computer. If you lose your private key, you must create a new set of keys before you can access your data.

To create an Object Tier user:

  1. On the left menu, click Object Storage Dashboard.

    Network Storage portal shows the Object Storage dashboard and any tenants created for your organization.
Object Storage dashboard (showing Tenants tab)
  1. Click the Users tab.

    Network Storage portal shows all users for your organization (if any).
Object Storage dashboard (showing Users tab)
  1. Click Create User.
Create Object Storage User
  1. Fill in the information for the user:

    1. Select the tenant you want to create the user for.

    2. Type the user name.
  1. Click Create User.

    The Network Storage portal creates the user and shows the user access key and secret key. Use this information to create an Object Tier bucket.

Important: Copy and save these keys in text format. You will not be able to reference them within the portal again after closing this dialog box. We recommend you capture and duplicate these keys in multiple ways to provide a backup reference.

Create Object Storage User (showing keys)

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