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title: "Creating a User in Oracle Cloud"
slug: "creating-a-user-in-oracle-cloud-oci2"
updated: 2026-04-16T06:58:01Z
published: 2026-04-29T10:51:57Z
canonical: "docs.britive.com/creating-a-user-in-oracle-cloud-oci2"
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# Creating a User in Oracle Cloud

## Create a Britive service user and credentials

1. Log in to the Oracle Cloud Console with administrator privileges.
2. Click **Identity & Security** from the navigation menu.
3. Click **Domains** from the **Identity** section**.**
4. Click **Default** domain.
5. Select the **User management** tab**.**
6. Click **Create** to create a new user. For more information about creating a user, see [Oracle documentation->Creating a User](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/users/create-user-accounts.htm).
7. Enter the following on the **Create User** page:
  1. Enter **First name** (Optional) and **Last name**. In **Last name**, enter the name of the user—for example, *BritiveUser*. There should not be any spaces in the name; only numerals and special characters (such as underscores, hyphens, periods, *, and @) are allowed.
  2. Enter **Username/Email** (for the email of the user). Select **Use the email address as the username**, if required.
  3. Click **Create**. The new user details are displayed.
8. Copy the **OCID** from the **User information** section. This is required for onboarding the Oracle Cloud application in Britive.
9. Add the API Keys in the newly created user configuration from the **API keys** tab.
10. Click the **Add API key**. The **Add API Key** window is displayed.
11. In the **Add API key** window, you can add the API key in three different ways:
  - **Generate API key pair**: The API key pair is automatically generated.
  - **Choose public key file**: If you intend to upload a public key file that you have generated, you can select this option.
  - **Paste a public key**: You can directly paste the content of the public key file that you have generated.
  - Alternatively, you can also download the private key and public key directly from the **Add API key** window.

Note:

You need to upload the public key in Oracle Cloud. The private key is required for the Britive configuration.
12. To add the API key pair, click **Add**. The **Configuration file preview** is displayed.
13. Click **Close**. The **Fingerprint** is displayed under the **API keys** section.
14. Copy the **Fingerprint** of the public key.

## Grant Domain Role to the Britive service user

1. Add the user to the **IdentityDomainAdministrator** role, under **Domains**->**Default Domain**->**Administrators**.
2. The previous step must be repeated for each domain that is to be onboarded to the Britive tenant.

For more information on creating a public/private key pair in Oracle Cloud, refer to the [Oracle Cloud documentation](https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/big-data-compute-cloud/csspc/generate-secure-shell-ssh-public-private-key-pair.html#GUID-AC1F9E1F-31CE-4E21-AB30-3AA78F0E92AC).