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Create a new user

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You can add new users to your IBM NS1 Connect account and grant them the necessary permissions to manage different aspects of your organization's DNS resources and configurations.

To view and manage users, click your username in the upper right corner of the portal and go to Settings > Users & teams from the dropdown.

screenshot - navigate to users and teams

The Users tab provides a list of all account users.

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Follow the instructions below to create a new user within your IBM NS1 Connect account.

  1. Navigate to the Users page (see above) and click Add user.

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  2. Enter the username, email address, and full name of the new user.

  3. Optionally, enable the "Notify this user about billing events" option to allow this user to receive account overage alerts and other billing-related notifications.

  4. If any teams have been configured, you can choose to associate the user with one or more teams. If you select a team, the user inherits the permissions set at the team level.

  5. Beneath each section of user permissions, select or deselect permissions based on what is required for this individual user. Refer to "Guide to user and API key permissions" for details about each permission option.

  6. Under Resource Permissions, indicate whether or not this user should be able to manage and/or view DNS zones associated with your account.

    • If the Allow by default option is enabled, the team members will have access to all zones except those specified under Denied zones.

    • If the Allow by default option is disabled, the team members will have access to all zones except those specified under Allowed zones.

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  7. Under Manage IP allow list for this key, enter one or more IPv4 addresses or CIDR ranges from which the API key can access your account. If left blank, only the global or team-level IP allow lists will be applied to this user.

  8. Optionally, enable the option to Apply this IP allow list exclusively to ignore other IP allow lists applied at the global or team level. If enabled, the user will only be able to access the account from an IP address specified here.

  9. Click Save user.

Once saved, the new user will receive a confirmation email with instructions to create a password.

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