OpenMetadata/openmetadata-docs/content/v1.9.x-SNAPSHOT/main-concepts/metadata-standard/schemas/entity/teams/user.md

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User | OpenMetadata User API and Profiles	Capture user metadata including roles, team associations, and activity for access and analytics.	/main-concepts/metadata-standard/schemas/entity/teams/user

User

A User represents a user of OpenMetadata. A user can be part of 0 or more teams. A special type of user called Bot is used for automation. A user can be an owner of zero or more data assets. A user can also follow zero or more data assets.

Properties

• id: Unique identifier that identifies a user entity instance. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/uuid.
• name: A unique name of the user, typically the user ID from an identity provider. Example - uid from LDAP. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/entityName.
• fullyQualifiedName: FullyQualifiedName same as name. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/fullyQualifiedEntityName.
• description: Used for user biography. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/markdown.
• displayName (string): Name used for display purposes. Example 'FirstName LastName'.
• version: Metadata version of the entity. Refer to ../../type/entityHistory.json#/definitions/entityVersion.
• updatedAt: Last update time corresponding to the new version of the entity in Unix epoch time milliseconds. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/timestamp.
• updatedBy (string): User who made the update.
• email: Email address of the user. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/email.
• href: Link to the resource corresponding to this entity. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/href.
• timezone (string, format: timezone): Timezone of the user.
• isBot (boolean): When true indicates a special type of user called Bot. Default: false.
• isAdmin (boolean): When true indicates user is an administrator for the system with superuser privileges. Default: false.
• authenticationMechanism: Refer to #/definitions/authenticationMechanism.
• profile: Profile of the user. Refer to ../../type/profile.json.
• teams: Teams that the user belongs to. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.
• defaultPersona: Default Persona for the user from list of personas. Refer to ../../type/entityReference.json.
• personas: Personas that the user assigned to. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.
• owns: List of entities owned by the user. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.
• follows: List of entities followed by the user. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.
• changeDescription: Change that lead to this version of the entity. Refer to ../../type/entityHistory.json#/definitions/changeDescription.
• deleted (boolean): When true indicates the entity has been soft deleted. Default: false.
• roles: Roles that the user has been assigned. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.
• inheritedRoles: Roles that a user is inheriting through membership in teams that have set team default roles. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.
• isEmailVerified (boolean): If the User has verified the mail.
• domains: Domain the User belongs to. This is inherited by the team the user belongs to. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.

Definitions

• authenticationMechanism (object): User/Bot Authentication Mechanism. Cannot contain additional properties.
  • config
    • One of
      • : Refer to ../../auth/ssoAuth.json.
      • : Refer to ../../auth/jwtAuth.json.
      • : Refer to ../../auth/basicAuth.json.
  • authType: Must be one of: ["JWT", "SSO", "BASIC"].

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