guide.en-asia.md

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Create a OVH sub-account and a user account with OVH API	Create a sub-account and a user account with OVH API to access to OVH Manager	2020-01-02	unlisted

Objective

We will describe how to create a OVHcloud sub-account in order to create a unique identity that isolates visibility on services, billing. This guide will also show you how to add one or more logins to this sub-account to provide access the OVHcloud control panel.

Requirements

• Being connected on OVHcloud API{.external}.

• Having created your credentials for OVHcloud API{.external}.

• Having a customer account wih Reseller Tag (contact your sales representative for eligibility if applicable).

Instructions

Ressources

• /me/subAccount
• /me/identity/user

Operation process

Create a sub-account

[!api]

@api {v1} /me POST /me/subAccount

Retrieve and save the resulting ID.

Create a ConsumerKey for this sub-account

[!api]

@api {v1} /me POST /me/subAccount/{id}/createConsumerKey

The ConsumerKey allows you to call the OVHcloud API with the identiy of the sub-account.

Create a user for this sub-account

With the previously created ConsumerKey.

[!api]

@api {v1} /me POST /me/identity/user

• email : add an email address for this user
• login : enter a relevant string for this user
• password : it must meet the requirements of zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation{.external} and be valid by testing it on Pwned Passwords{.external}.

Go further

Join our community of users on https://community.ovh.com/en/.