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Title: Create users
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description: Create users and assign access control roles.
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## Prerequisites

Before you create other users:

1. Review the [access control overview]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.22/security/access-control">}}) to learn how to use role-based access control (RBAC) to manage users' cluster access and database access.

1. Create roles you can assign to users. See [Create roles with cluster access only]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.22/security/access-control/create-cluster-roles">}}), [Create roles with database access only]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.22/security/access-control/create-db-roles">}}), or [Create roles with combined access]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.22/security/access-control/create-combined-roles">}}) for instructions.

## Add users

To add a user to the cluster:

1. From the **Access Control > Users** tab in the Cluster Manager UI, select **+ Add user**.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/screenshots/access-control/7-22-updates/users-screen.png" alt="The list of existing users on the Access Control > Users screen.">}}

1. Enter the name, email, and password of the new user.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/screenshots/access-control/7-22-updates/create-user-panel.png" alt="Create user panel with fields for username, email, password, and alerts.">}}

1. Select the **Alerts** the user should receive by email:

    - **Receive alerts for databases** - The alerts that are enabled for the selected databases will be sent to the user. Choose **All databases** or **Customize** to select the individual databases to send alerts for.
    
    - **Receive cluster alerts** - The alerts that are enabled for the cluster in **Cluster > Alerts Settings** are sent to the user.

1. Click **Add permissions**.

1. Assign a **Role** to the user to grant permissions for cluster management and data access.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/screenshots/access-control/7-22-updates/create-user-role-select.png" alt="Add role to new user." >}}

1. Click **Save user**.

## Assign roles to users

Assign a role, associated with specific databases and access control lists (ACLs), to a user to grant database access:

1. From the **Access Control > Users** tab in the Cluster Manager UI, select an existing user from the list of users.

1. Click the **Edit** button.

1. In the **User roles** section, click **Edit**.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/screenshots/access-control/7-22-updates/edit-user-roles.png" alt="The User roles section of the Edit user panel." >}}

1. Select a role to assign to the user.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/screenshots/access-control/7-22-updates/edit-user-select-role.png" alt="Select role for user." >}}

1. Click **Done** to close the **Roles** dialog.

1. Click **Save**.

## Next steps

Depending on the type of the user's assigned role (cluster management role or data access role), the user can now:

- [Connect to a database]({{< relref "/operate/rs/7.22/databases/connect" >}}) associated with the role and run limited Redis commands, depending on the role's Redis ACLs.

- Sign in to the Redis Enterprise Software Cluster Manager UI.

- Make a [REST API]({{< relref "/operate/rs/7.22/references/rest-api" >}}) request.