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Create a new admin user.

```bash
npx medusa user --email <email> [--password <password>]
```

## Options

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      `-e <email>`, `--email <email>`
      
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      The user's email.
      
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      Yes

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      \-

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      `-p <password>`, `--password <password>`
      
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      The user's password.
      
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      No

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      \-

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      `-i <id>`, `--id <id>`
      
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      The user's ID.
      
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      No

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      An automatically generated ID is used.

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      `--invite`
      
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      Whether to create a user invite instead of directly creating a user. Learn more in the [Create User Invite](#create-user-invite-with-medusa-cli) section.

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      No

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      `false`

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## Create User Invite with Medusa CLI

The `user` command accepts the `--invite` option to create a user invite. The user must accept the invite before they can log into the Medusa Admin.

For example:

```bash
npx medusa user --email user@example.com --invite
```

The command will create a user invite and output the invite token. You can then either:

- Accept the invite in the Medusa Admin at the path `/app/invite?token=<invite_token>`
- Accept the invite using the [Accept Invite API route](!api!/admin#invites_postinvitesaccept).