Updated on 2025-11-06 GMT+08:00

Querying IAM User Details

Function

This API is used to query IAM user details.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the following required identity policy-based permissions. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

Action

Access Level

Resource Type (*: required)

Condition Key

Alias

Dependencies

iam:users:getUserV5

Read

user *

g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>

-

-

URI

GET /v5/users/{user_id}

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

user_id

Yes

String

IAM user ID.

Request Parameters

None

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 2 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

user

UserEx object

IAM user.

Table 3 UserEx

Parameter

Type

Description

description

String

IAM user description. The value can contain 0 to 255 characters and cannot contain the following special characters: @, #, %, &, <, >, \, $, ^, and *.

user_name

String

IAM username. The value contains 1 to 64 characters, including only letters, digits, underscores (_), hyphens (-), periods (.), and spaces, and cannot start with a digit.

is_root_user

Boolean

Indicates whether an IAM user is a root user.

created_at

String

Time when an IAM user was created.

user_id

String

IAM user ID.

urn

String

Uniform resource name.

enabled

Boolean

Indicates whether an IAM user is enabled.

tags

Array of Tag objects

List of custom tags.

Table 4 Tag

Parameter

Type

Description

tag_key

String

Tag key. The value can contain 1 to 64 characters. Letters, digits, spaces, and the following special characters are allowed: _.:=+-@. The key cannot start with a space or _sys_ or end with a space.

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 64

tag_value

String

Tag value. The value can be an empty string or contain 0 to 128 characters. Letters, digits, spaces, and the following special characters are allowed: _.:/=+-@

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 128

Status code: 403

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

request_id

String

Request ID.

encoded_authorization_message

String

Encrypted authentication failure information, which can be decrypted using the STS5 decryption API.

Status code: 404

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

request_id

String

Request ID.

Example Requests

Querying IAM user details

GET https://{endpoint}/v5/users/{user_id}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Successful

{
  "user" : {
    "description" : "description",
    "user_name" : "name",
    "is_root_user" : false,
    "created_at" : "2023-04-26T03:49:42Z",
    "user_id" : "string",
    "urn" : "iam::accountid:user:name",
    "enabled" : true,
    "tags" : [ {
      "tag_key" : "key",
      "tag_value" : "value"
    } ]
  }
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Successful

403

Forbidden

404

Not found

Error Codes

See Error Codes.