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title: Manage users in your InfluxDB cluster
description: Manage users with administrative access to your InfluxDB cluster through your identity provider and your InfluxDB AppInstance resource.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb3/clustered/admin/users/
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canonical: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb3/clustered/admin/users/
date: '2025-03-13T17:02:04-06:00'
lastmod: '2025-03-13T17:02:04-06:00'
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Manage users with administrative access to your InfluxDB cluster through your[identity provider](/influxdb3/clustered/install/secure-cluster/auth/) and your InfluxDB`AppInstance` resource. Administrative access lets users perform actions like
creating databases and tokens.

#### Users versus database tokens

All *users* have administrative access to your cluster and can perform
administrative actions in your InfluxDB cluster.*Database tokens* authorize read and write access to databases in your InfluxDB
cluster. A person or client doesn’t need to be a user to read and write data in your cluster,
but they must have a database token.

### [Add a user](/influxdb3/clustered/admin/users/add/)

Add a user with administrative access to your InfluxDB cluster through your identity provider and your InfluxDB `AppInstance` resource.

### [Remove a user](/influxdb3/clustered/admin/users/remove/)

Remove a user with administrative access from your InfluxDB cluster.

#### Related

* [Set up administrative authentication](/influxdb3/clustered/install/secure-cluster/auth/)
* [Configure your InfluxDB cluster](/influxdb3/clustered/install/set-up-cluster/configure-cluster/)