Creating a Customer Secret Key

Use the Console to create a customer secret key.

1. View the user's details:
   • If you're creating a customer secret key for yourself:

     Open the Profile menu, and then click My Profile.

   • If you're an administrator creating a customer secret key for another user: Open the navigation menu and click Identity & Security. Under Identity, click Domains. Click the name of the identity domain that you want to work in. You might need to change the compartment to find the domain that you want. Then, click Users. Locate the user in the list, and then click the user's name to view the details.

2. Under Resources, click Customer secret keys.

   A customer secret key consists of an access key/secret key pair. Oracle automatically generates the access key when you or your administrator generates the secret key to create the customer secret key.

3. Click Generate secret key.

4. Click Name to enter a friendly name for the key, and then click Generate secret key.

   The generated secret key is displayed in the Generate secret key dialog box. At the same time, Oracle generates the access key that is paired with the secret key. The newly generated customer secret key is added to the list of Customer secret keys.

5. Click Copy to copy the secret key immediately, because you can't retrieve the secret key again after closing the dialog box, for security reasons.

   If you're an administrator creating a secret key for another user, you need to securely deliver it to the user by providing it verbally, printing it out, or sending it through a secure email service.

6. When you are finished, click Close.
7. To show the access key, locate the secret key in the list of customer secret keys, and then click the access key in the Access key column. To copy the access key, while the access key is displayed, click Copy.