Make MinIO Access Key
Today in my homelab I wanted to setup a new service that needed a MinIO access key. So I created a new user and a new access key with the MinIO CLI rather than poking through the ui like I have before. Global Level vs User Level # The MinIO CLI has two levels of access, global and user level. Most of the commands in this post will have several ways to do similar tasks that would potentially work. We are going to prefer to use the user level commands for more control. For some commands such as listing Keys it is handy to use the global level. The Policy # First we are going to make a new policy file named. Set the Minio Alias # Before we can create new access keys we will need to start by settin up an alias in minio that has admin rights to the minio server. Check to see if your alias exists. The Script # Now we are going to pick a SECRETKEY and a NEWUSERNAME, create the policy, create the user, attach the policy to the user and add the user to the alias. Attention This is the secret ke…