Chapter 4. Creating the first user

Procedure

1. On the OpenShift Container Platform web console, click Operators Installed Operators Red Hat Quay.
2. On the Red Hat Quay Operators page, click Quay Registry, and then the name of your registry.
3. On the QuayRegistry details page, click the Registry Endpoint link, for example, example-registry-quay.username-cluster-new.gcp.quaydev.org. You are navigated to the registry’s main page.
4. Click Create Account.
5. Enter the details for Username, Password, Email, and then click Create Account. After creating the first user, you are automatically logged in to the Red Hat Quay registry.

Procedure

1. On the command-line interface, generate a new user with a username, password, email, and access token by entering the following CURL command:

   $ curl -X POST -k  http:/</quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/user/initialize --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{ "username": "<username>", "password":"<password>", "email": "<email>@example.com", "access_token": true}'

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   If successful, the command returns an object with the username, email, and encrypted password. For example:

   {"access_token":"123456789", "email":"quayadmin@example.com","encrypted_password":"<password>","username":"quayadmin"} # gitleaks:allow

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   If a user already exists in the database, an error is returned. For example:

   {"message":"Cannot initialize user in a non-empty database"}

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   If your password is not at least eight characters or contains whitespace, an error is returned. For example:

   {"message":"Failed to initialize user: Invalid password, password must be at least 8 characters and contain no whitespace."}

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2. You can log in to your registry by navigating to the UI or by leveraging Podman on the CLI.

   1. Log in to the registry by running the following podman command:

      $ podman login -u <username> -p <password> http://<quay-server.example.com>

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      Example output

      Login Succeeded!

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