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title: "Creating Users"
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<span style="color: #000000">All users must belong to a user group. If you do not assign a user group to a user, the user will automatically be assigned to the default user group. You can select a user group to be the default group. For more information, see </span><span style="color: #000000">*[Configuring User Groups](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35464039)*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

> 📝 If you plan to use access views, note that service users cannot log in to access views using API keys. For information, see *[Access View Behavior for Interactive and Service Users](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/1514307738)*.

<span style="color: #000000">To add a user, complete the following:</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">Log in to Infoblox Portal.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span><span style="color: #000000">**System**</span><span style="color: #000000"> > </span><span style="color: #000000">**Administration**</span><span style="color: #000000"> > </span><span style="color: #000000">**User Access**</span><span style="color: #000000"> > </span><span style="color: #000000">**Users**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">On the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Users**</span><span style="color: #000000"> page, click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Create User**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">In the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Create Users**</span><span style="color: #000000"> dialog, complete the following:</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">**Name**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Enter the name of the user you want to add.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">**Type**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Choose one of the following user types:</span>
    - <span style="color: #000000">**Interactive**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Choose this to create a user who can sign in to the Infoblox Portal. Interactive users can create their own API keys for API authentication purposes. For information, see </span><span style="color: #000000">*[Configuring User API Keys](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35430405)*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
    - <span style="color: #000000">**Service**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Choose this to create a service account used by an application or a virtual machine, not a person. Applications use service accounts to make authorized API calls. You can assign a service API key to a service account user to perform API calls for specific purpose. Each service user can be associated up to 10 service API keys. For information, see </span><span style="color: #000000">*[Configuring Service API Keys](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35397908)*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">**Email**</span><span style="color: #000000">: Enter the email address for the user.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">From the </span><span style="color: #000000">**AVAILABLE USER GROUPS**</span><span style="color: #000000"> table, select the user group(s) you want to assign to this user, and use the arrow to move the user group(s) to the </span><span style="color: #000000">**SELECTED USER GROUPS**</span><span style="color: #000000"> table. To select all user groups, simply click </span><span style="color: #000000">**>>**</span><span style="color: #000000">. To deselect all the user groups, click </span><span style="color: #000000">**<<**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

> ⚠️ ### Note
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">All users must belong to at least one user group. Ensure that you assign at least one user to the access control administrator user group (</span><span style="color: #000000">**ib-access-control-admin**</span><span style="color: #000000">). This user group has the permissions to view and configure users, user groups, and access policies when applied to the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Access Control Administrators Role**</span><span style="color: #000000">. For more information, see </span><span style="color: #000000">*[Managing Role-Based Access Control](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35463223)*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">Click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Save & Close**</span><span style="color: #000000"> to add the user.</span>