AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the AWS Transfer for SFTP CreateUser API operation.

Syntax

New-TFRUser
-ServerId <String>
-PosixProfile_Gid <Int64>
-HomeDirectory <String>
-HomeDirectoryMapping <HomeDirectoryMapEntry[]>
-HomeDirectoryType <HomeDirectoryType>
-Policy <String>
-Role <String>
-PosixProfile_SecondaryGid <Int64[]>
-SshPublicKeyBody <String>
-Tag <Tag[]>
-PosixProfile_Uid <Int64>
-UserName <String>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-Force <SwitchParameter>
-ClientConfig <AmazonTransferConfig>

Description

Creates a user and associates them with an existing file transfer protocol-enabled server. You can only create and associate users with servers that have the IdentityProviderType set to SERVICE_MANAGED. Using parameters for CreateUser, you can specify the user name, set the home directory, store the user's public key, and assign the user's Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. You can also optionally add a session policy, and assign metadata with tags that can be used to group and search for users.

Parameters

-ClientConfig <AmazonTransferConfig>
Amazon.PowerShell.Cmdlets.TFR.AmazonTransferClientCmdlet.ClientConfig
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-HomeDirectory <String>
The landing directory (folder) for a user when they log in to the server using the client.A HomeDirectory example is /bucket_name/home/mydirectory.The HomeDirectory parameter is only used if HomeDirectoryType is set to PATH.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-HomeDirectoryMapping <HomeDirectoryMapEntry[]>
Logical directory mappings that specify what Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS paths and keys should be visible to your user and how you want to make them visible. You must specify the Entry and Target pair, where Entry shows how the path is made visible and Target is the actual Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS path. If you only specify a target, it is displayed as is. You also must ensure that your Identity and Access Management (IAM) role provides access to paths in Target. This value can be set only when HomeDirectoryType is set to LOGICAL.The following is an Entry and Target pair example.[ { "Entry": "/directory1", "Target": "/bucket_name/home/mydirectory" } ]In most cases, you can use this value instead of the session policy to lock your user down to the designated home directory ("chroot"). To do this, you can set Entry to / and set Target to the value the user should see for their home directory when they log in.The following is an Entry and Target pair example for chroot.[ { "Entry": "/", "Target": "/bucket_name/home/mydirectory" } ]
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesHomeDirectoryMappings
-HomeDirectoryType <HomeDirectoryType>
The type of landing directory (folder) that you want your users' home directory to be when they log in to the server. If you set it to PATH, the user will see the absolute Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon EFS path as is in their file transfer protocol clients. If you set it to LOGICAL, you need to provide mappings in the HomeDirectoryMappings for how you want to make Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS paths visible to your users.If HomeDirectoryType is LOGICAL, you must provide mappings, using the HomeDirectoryMappings parameter. If, on the other hand, HomeDirectoryType is PATH, you provide an absolute path using the HomeDirectory parameter. You cannot have both HomeDirectory and HomeDirectoryMappings in your template.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the ServerId parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^ServerId' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Policy <String>
A session policy for your user so that you can use the same Identity and Access Management (IAM) role across multiple users. This policy scopes down a user's access to portions of their Amazon S3 bucket. Variables that you can use inside this policy include ${Transfer:UserName}, ${Transfer:HomeDirectory}, and ${Transfer:HomeBucket}.This policy applies only when the domain of ServerId is Amazon S3. Amazon EFS does not use session policies.For session policies, Transfer Family stores the policy as a JSON blob, instead of the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the policy. You save the policy as a JSON blob and pass it in the Policy argument.For an example of a session policy, see Example session policy.For more information, see AssumeRole in the Amazon Web Services Security Token Service API Reference.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PosixProfile_Gid <Int64>
The POSIX group ID used for all EFS operations by this user.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PosixProfile_SecondaryGid <Int64[]>
The secondary POSIX group IDs used for all EFS operations by this user.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesPosixProfile_SecondaryGids
-PosixProfile_Uid <Int64>
The POSIX user ID used for all EFS operations by this user.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Role <String>
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that controls your users' access to your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon EFS file system. The policies attached to this role determine the level of access that you want to provide your users when transferring files into and out of your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon EFS file system. The IAM role should also contain a trust relationship that allows the server to access your resources when servicing your users' transfer requests.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is '*'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.Transfer.Model.CreateUserResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.Transfer.Model.CreateUserResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ServerId <String>
A system-assigned unique identifier for a server instance. This is the specific server that you added your user to.
Required?True
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-SshPublicKeyBody <String>
The public portion of the Secure Shell (SSH) key used to authenticate the user to the server.The three standard SSH public key format elements are <key type>, <body base64>, and an optional <comment>, with spaces between each element.Transfer Family accepts RSA, ECDSA, and ED25519 keys.
  • For RSA keys, the key type is ssh-rsa.
  • For ED25519 keys, the key type is ssh-ed25519.
  • For ECDSA keys, the key type is either ecdsa-sha2-nistp256, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384, or ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, depending on the size of the key you generated.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Tag <Tag[]>
Key-value pairs that can be used to group and search for users. Tags are metadata attached to users for any purpose.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesTags
-UserName <String>
A unique string that identifies a user and is associated with a ServerId. This user name must be a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 100 characters long. The following are valid characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, underscore '_', hyphen '-', period '.', and at sign '@'. The user name can't start with a hyphen, period, or at sign.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

This cmdlet returns an Amazon.Transfer.Model.CreateUserResponse object containing multiple properties. The object can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.

Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z