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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 [ops-manager|cloud-manager] dbusers create.

Command Syntax
mongocli iam users invite [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/pt-br/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.

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.

# 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 iam 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 iam users invite --email user@example.com --username user@example.com --projectRole 5f71e5255afec75a3d0f96dc:GROUP_READ_ONLY --firstName Example --lastName User --country US --output json

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