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p4 user

Synopsis

Create or edit Perforce user specifications and preferences.

Syntax

p4 [g-opts] user [-f] [username]
p4 [g-opts] user -d [-f] username
p4 [g-opts] user -o [username]
p4 [g-opts] user -i [-f]

Description

By default, any system user becomes a valid Perforce user the first time he uses any Perforce command; Perforce automatically creates a user spec with default settings for the invoking user. Use the p4 user command to edit these settings or to create new user records.

Perforce superusers can prevent random users from accessing Perforce with p4 protect.

When p4 user is called, a form is brought up in the editor defined by the P4EDITOR environment or registry variable. Perforce expects the form's entries to be entered in Perforce's standard forms format.

When called without a username, p4 user edits specification of the current user. When called with a username, the user specification is displayed, but can't be changed.

Perforce superusers can create new users or edit existing users' specifications with the -f (force) flag: p4 user -f username.

The user who gives a Perforce command is not necessarily the user under whose name the command runs. The user for any particular command is determined by the following:

Form Fields

Field Name
Type
Description

User:

Read-only

The Perforce username under which p4 user was invoked. By default, this is the user's system username.

Email:

Writable

The user's email address. By default, this is user@client.

Update:

Read-only

The date and time this specification was last updated.

Access:

Read-only

The date and time this user last ran a Perforce command.

FullName:

Writable

The user's full name.

JobView:

Writable

A description of the jobs to appear automatically on all new changelists (described in the Usage Notes below).

Password:

Writable

The user's password (described in the Usage Notes below).

Reviews:

Writable List

A list of files the user would like to review (see the Usage Notes below).

Options

-d username

Deletes the specified user. Only user username, or the Perforce superuser, can run this command.

-f

Superuser force flag; allows the superuser to modify or delete the specified user.

-i

Read the user specification from standard input. The input must conform to the p4 user form's format.

-o

Write the user specification to standard output.

g-opts

See the Global Options section.

Usage Notes

Can File Arguments Use
Revision Specifier?

Can File Arguments Use
Revision Range?

Minimal Access Level Required

N/A

N/A

list

No matter what the length of the password is, it is displayed as six asterisks whenever you subsequently call p4 user.

Each of these three methods overrides the methods above it. For more information on passwords, please see p4 passwd.

then the change review daemon sends joe email whenever any README file has been submitted, and whenever any file under //depot/main has been submitted.

in your Reviews: field, you will receive email when jobs are changed.

For example, suppose the jobs at your site have a field called Owned-By:. If you set the Jobview: field on your p4 user form to Owned-By=yourname&status=open, all open jobs owned by you appear on all changelists you create. See p4 jobs for a full description of jobview usage and syntax.

Examples

p4 user joe

View the user specification of Perforce user joe.

p4 user

Edit the user specification for the current Perforce user.

p4 user -d sammy

Delete the user specification for the Perforce user sammy.

p4 -u joe -P hey submit

Run p4 submit as user joe, whose password is hey.

p4 user -f joe2

Create a new Perforce user named joe2 if the caller is a Perforce superuser, and joe2 doesn't already exist as a Perforce user. If user joe2 already exists, allow a Perforce superuser to modify the user's settings.

Related Commands

To view a list of all Perforce users

p4 users

To change a user's password

p4 passwd

To view a list of users who have subscribed to review particular files

p4 reviews


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