# Create a tenant user account

Use this task in Hitachi Content Platform to create a tenant user account to be used exclusively by Data Optimizer, not by an actual user. This user owns and has exclusive data access permissions to Data Optimizer buckets.

**Note:** The tenant user must not have any administrative role in the tenant beyond administration of the buckets they own. No users should have access to the data in Data Optimizer buckets at any time for any reason except when required by customer support.

Use the following steps in the Content Platform Tenant Management Console to create a tenant user account. See the **Hitachi Content Platform** product documentation for more information.

1. Navigate to **Security** > **Users** > **Create User Account**.

   The Create User Account panel opens.
2. In the Create User Account panel, in the **Username** field, type a login account.

   Adhere to the following guidelines:

   1. Choose a name like `pdso-svc-usr`, to indicate that the user is not a person but a software service.
   2. Do not enable any administrative roles.
   3. Select **Allow namespace management**.

      You need to do this so Data Optimizer instances can create buckets.
3. Click **Create User Account**.

   The text “`Successfully created user account. Authorization token:`” is shown, followed by a text string with two values separated by a colon. The value on the left side of the text string is the base64-encoded username for the **ACCESS\_KEY** property, and the value on the right is the md5-encoded password to use for the **SECRET\_KEY** property.
4. Capture the base64-encoded username and md5-encoded password to add to the Data Optimizer configuration file.
5. Edit the `/etc/ldo`Data Optimizer configuration file and add the encoded username to the **ACCESS\_KEY** property and add the encoded password to the **SECRET\_KEY** property.
6. Save and close the configuration file.


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