---
title: ecctl user
description: Manages the platform users. ecctl - Elastic Cloud Control, ecctl user create - Creates a new platform user, ecctl user delete - Deletes one or more platform...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Control
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Enterprise: Generally available
---

# ecctl user
Manages the platform users.
```
ecctl user [flags]
```


## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for 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](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl) - Elastic Cloud Control
- [ecctl user create](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_create) - Creates a new platform user
- [ecctl user delete](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_delete) - Deletes one or more platform users
- [ecctl user disable](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_disable) - Disables a platform user
- [ecctl user enable](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_enable) - Enables a previously disabled platform user
- [ecctl user key](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_key) - Manages the API keys of a platform user
- [ecctl user list](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_list) - Lists all platform users
- [ecctl user show](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_show) - Shows details of a specified user
- [ecctl user update](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user_update) - Updates a platform user