Netezza Create User Command and Examples

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Use the Netezza CREATE USER command to define a new database user account. You can specify the parameters like password, expire date, default priority etc to the user while creating an account.

Netezza Create User Command Syntax

In the Netezza, username, database name and group name are unique. You cannot have same user as the group name.

Syntax for creating a user:

CREATE USER username 
[WITH 
[PASSWORD {'string' | NULL }] 
[SYSID uid] 
[ROWSETLIMIT [integer ] 
[IN GROUP groupname [, ...] ] 
[VALID UNTIL 'date' ] 
[SESSIONTIMEOUT [integer ] 
[QUERYTIMEOUT [integer ] 
[DEFPRIORITY [critical|high|normal|low|none]] 
[MAXPRIORITY [critical|high|normal|low|none]] 
[IN RESOURCEGROUP resourcegroupname] 
[EXPIRE PASSWORD] 
[AUTH [LOCAL | DEFAULT]]
[EXPIRE PASSWORD]
] 
| CONCURRENT SESSIONS <limit> 
| ALLOW CROSS JOIN [TRUE|FALSE|NULL]

Netezza Create User Command Options

The create user command takes following inputs. Below are the some of the important options associated with the Netezza create user command:

Option Description
username Specifies the name of the user you are creating
string Specifies a password for this user account
NULL You can specify WITH PASSWORD NULL to explicitly create a user

with a null password
date Specifies the date when this user’s

account expires
SESSIONTIMEOUT Specifies the amount of time a session can be idle before the system

terminates it. The value zero is unlimited
QUERYTIMEOUT Specifies the amount of time a query can run before the system

sends the administrator a message.
DEFPRIORITY Specifies the default priority for the user. critical, high, normal, low
IN RESOURCEGROUP Specifies the resource group into which to add a user
IN GROUP Specifies the group into which to insert the user as a new member. e.g Developer, Administrator etc
CONCURRENT SESSIONS <limit> Sets the maximum number of concurrent sessions this group can have
EXPIRE

PASSWORD

 Creates a user with an expired/invalidated password. The first time

the user logs in, they must change their password.

Netezza Create User Command Examples

Below are some examples on how to create user:

TRAINING.ADMIN(ADMIN)=> CREATE USER testuser1 TRAINING.ADMIN(ADMIN)-> WITH PASSWORD 'testuser1' EXPIRE PASSWORD; 
CREATE USER

[nz@netezza ~]$ nzsql -u testuser1 -pw testuser1 
ERROR: Restricted Session. User password has expired. Use 'ALTER USER' command to change it. 
NOTICE: Restricted Session. User password has expired. Use 'ALTER USER' command to change it. 
Welcome to nzsql, the IBM Netezza SQL interactive terminal. 
Type: \h for help with SQL commands 
 \? for help on internal slash commands 
 \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query 
 \q to quit 
SYSTEM.ADMIN(TESTUSER1)=>
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