Chapter 2. Red Hat Quay user accounts overview A user account represents an individual with authenticated access to the platform's features and functionalities. User accounts provide the capability to create and manage repositories, upload and retrieve container images, and control access permissions for these resources. This account is pivotal for organizing and overseeing container image management within Red Hat Quay. You can create and delete new users on the zRed Hat Quay UI or by using the Red Hat Quay API. 2.1. Creating a user account by using the UI Use the following procedure to create a new user for your Red Hat Quay repository using the UI. Prerequisites You are logged into your Red Hat Quay deployment as a superuser. Procedure Log in to your Red Hat Quay repository as the superuser. In the navigation pane, select your account name, and then click Super User Admin Panel . Click the Users icon in the column. Click the Create User button. Enter the new user's Username and Email address, and then click the Create User button. You are redirected to the Users page, where there is now another Red Hat Quay user. Note You might need to refresh the Users page to show the additional user. On the Users page, click the Options cogwheel associated with the new user. A drop-down menu appears, as shown in the following figure: Click Change Password . Add the new password, and then click Change User Password . The new user can now use that username and password to log in using the web UI or through their preferred container client, like Podman. 2.2. Creating a user account by using the Red Hat Quay API Use the following procedure to create a new user for your Red Hat Quay repository by using the API. Prerequisites You are logged into your Red Hat Quay deployment as a superuser. You have Created an OAuth access token . You have set BROWSER_API_CALLS_XHR_ONLY: false in your config.yaml file. Procedure Enter the following command to create a new user using the POST /api/v1/superuser/users/ endpoint: USD curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer <bearer_token>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "username": "newuser", "email": "newuser@example.com" }' "https://<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/superuser/users/" Example output {"username": "newuser", "email": "newuser@example.com", "password": "123456789", "encrypted_password": "<example_encrypted_password>/JKY9pnDcsw="} Navigate to your Red Hat Quay registry endpoint, for example, quay-server.example.com and login with the username and password generated from the API call. In this scenario, the username is newuser and the password is 123456789 . Alternatively, you can log in to the registry with the CLI. For example: USD podman login <quay-server.example.com> Example output username: newuser password: 123456789 Optional. You can obtain a list of all users, including superusers, by using the GET /api/v1/superuser/users/ endpoint: USD curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer <bearer_token>" "https://<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/superuser/users/" Example output {"users": [{"kind": "user", "name": "quayadmin", "username": "quayadmin", "email": "quay@quay.com", "verified": true, "avatar": {"name": "quayadmin", "hash": "b28d563a6dc76b4431fc7b0524bbff6b810387dac86d9303874871839859c7cc", "color": "#17becf", "kind": "user"}, "super_user": true, "enabled": true}, {"kind": "user", "name": "newuser", "username": "newuser", "email": "newuser@example.com", "verified": true, "avatar": {"name": "newuser", "hash": "f338a2c83bfdde84abe2d3348994d70c34185a234cfbf32f9e323e3578e7e771", "color": "#9edae5", "kind": "user"}, "super_user": false, "enabled": true}]} 2.3. Deleting a user by using the UI Use the following procedure to delete a user from your Red Hat Quay repository using the UI. Note that after deleting the user, any repositories that the user had in their private account become unavailable. Note In some cases, when accessing the Users tab in the Superuser Admin Panel of the Red Hat Quay UI, you might encounter a situation where no users are listed. Instead, a message appears, indicating that Red Hat Quay is configured to use external authentication, and users can only be created in that system. This error occurs for one of two reasons: The web UI times out when loading users. When this happens, users are not accessible to perform any operations on. On LDAP authentication. When a userID is changed but the associated email is not. Currently, Red Hat Quay does not allow the creation of a new user with an old email address. When this happens, you must delete the user using the Red Hat Quay API. Prerequisites You are logged into your Red Hat Quay deployment as a superuser. Procedure Log in to your Red Hat Quay repository as the superuser. In the navigation pane, select your account name, and then click Super User Admin Panel . Click the Users icon in the navigation pane. Click the Options cogwheel beside the user to be deleted. Click Delete User , and then confirm deletion by clicking Delete User . 2.4. Deleting a user by using the Red Hat Quay API Use the following procedure to delete a user from Red Hat Quay using the API. Important After deleting the user, any repositories that this user had in his private account become unavailable. Prerequisites You are logged into your Red Hat Quay deployment as a superuser. You have Created an OAuth access token . You have set BROWSER_API_CALLS_XHR_ONLY: false in your config.yaml file. Procedure Enter the following DELETE /api/v1/superuser/users/{username} command to delete a user from the command line: USD curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer <insert token here>" https://<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/superuser/users/<username> The CLI does not return information when deleting a user from the CLI. To confirm deletion, you can check the Red Hat Quay UI by navigating to Superuser Admin Panel Users , or by entering the following GET /api/v1/superuser/users/ command. You can then check to see if they are present. USD curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer <bearer_token>" "https://<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/superuser/users/"

Commands:
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer <bearer_token>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "username": "newuser", "email": "newuser@example.com" }' "https://<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/superuser/users/"
username: newuser
email: newuser@example.com
password: 123456789
encrypted_password: <example_encrypted_password>/JKY9pnDcsw=
podman login <quay-server.example.com>
username: newuser password: 123456789
curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer <bearer_token>" "https://<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/superuser/users/"
{"users": [{"kind": "user", "name": "quayadmin", "username": "quayadmin", "email": "quay@quay.com", "verified": true, "avatar": {"name": "quayadmin", "hash": "b28d563a6dc76b4431fc7b0524bbff6b810387dac86d9303874871839859c7cc", "color": "#17becf", "kind": "user"}, "super_user": true, "enabled": true}, {"kind": "user", "name": "newuser", "username": "newuser", "email": "newuser@example.com", "verified": true, "avatar": {"name": "newuser", "hash": "f338a2c83bfdde84abe2d3348994d70c34185a234cfbf32f9e323e3578e7e771", "color": "#9edae5", "kind": "user"}, "super_user": false, "enabled": true}]}
curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer <insert token here>" https://<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/superuser/users/<username>
curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer <bearer_token>" "https://<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/superuser/users/"