﻿---
title: ecctl user create
description: Creates a new platform user. ecctl user - Manages the platform users. 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2777/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_create
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Control
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Enterprise: Generally available
---

# ecctl user create
Creates a new platform user.
```
ecctl user create --username <username> --role <role> [flags]
```


## Examples

```
  * Create a platform user who has two roles assigned
    ecctl user create --username sam89 --role ece_platform_viewer --role ece_deployment_viewer
```


## Options

```
      --email string               User's email address (must be in a valid email format)
      --fullname string            User's full name
  -h, --help                       help for create
      --insecure-password string   [INSECURE] User's plaintext password
      --role strings               Role or roles assigned to the user. Available roles:
                                   ece_platform_admin, ece_platform_viewer, ece_deployment_manager, ece_deployment_viewer
      --username string            Unique username for the platform user
```


## Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --api-key string        API key to use to authenticate (If empty will look for EC_API_KEY environment variable)
      --config string         Config name, used to have multiple configs in $HOME/.ecctl/<env> (default "config")
      --force                 Do not ask for confirmation
      --format string         Formats the output using a Go template
      --host string           Base URL to use
      --insecure              Skips all TLS validation
      --message string        A message to set on cluster operation
      --output string         Output format [text|json] (default "text")
      --pass string           Password to use to authenticate (If empty will look for EC_PASS environment variable)
      --pprof                 Enables pprofing and saves the profile to pprof-20060102150405
  -q, --quiet                 Suppresses the configuration file used for the run, if any
      --region string         Elastic Cloud Hosted region
      --timeout duration      Timeout to use on all HTTP calls (default 30s)
      --trace                 Enables tracing saves the trace to trace-20060102150405
      --user string           Username to use to authenticate (If empty will look for EC_USER environment variable)
      --verbose               Enable verbose mode
      --verbose-credentials   When set, Authorization headers on the request/response trail will be displayed as plain text
      --verbose-file string   When set, the verbose request/response trail will be written to the defined file
```


## See also

- [ecctl user](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2777/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user) - Manages the platform users