Community Component 26.3
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# UserRead

Displays the details for a user.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9030/action=UserRead&UserName=Susan Smith

This action requests the details for the user `Susan Smith`.

## Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Password | The user security repository password.

You must set one of the following parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
UID | The user ID of the user to authenticate.
UserName | The user name of the user to authenticate.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
DeferLogin | Whether to use another system for user authentication.
Domain | The NT domain of the user.
EmailAddress | The e-mail address of the user.
FieldFieldName | A field for the user.
Function | The function to perform.
Group | The LDAP user directory.
GroupDN | The group object that the user must belong to.
GroupMemberAttribute | The attribute that determines that a user is a group member.
InputEncoding | The encoding of the Domain and UserName.
LoginFieldValue | The value for the user that must occur in the configured LoginFieldName.
OutputEncoding | The encoding to convert the response to.
Privilege | The user privileges for which to display the values for the user.
Recurse | Whether to list the privilege values of the parent roles for the roles that the user belongs to.
Repository | The security repository.
ResourceID | The ID for an OpenText Directory Services (OTDS) resource that users must have access to.
RoleList | Whether to list the roles for the user.
Security | A security field for the user.
SecurityFields | Whether to display the user security fields.
SecurityInfo | Whether to display the user security string.
UserFieldMatch | The fields to display in the user details.

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
ActionID | A string to use to identify an ACI action.
FileName | The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh | Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output | Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat | The format of the action output.
Template | The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs | A list of variables to use for the specified template.

## Comments

You must set one of the following parameters:

- UID
- UserName

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Version 26.3 | Last updated July 2026

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Community Component 26.3

Topic Title: UserRead