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DescribeUser - Amazon QuickSight

Use the DescribeUser operation to return information about a user, given the user name. Following is an example AWS CLI command for this operation. To use this operation, you need the ID of the user that you want to describe. You can also use the ListUsers operation to list all users and their corresponding user IDs.

Following is an example AWS CLI command for this operation.

AWS CLI
aws quicksight describe-user 
    --aws-account-id AWSACCOUNTID 
    --namespace default
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aws quicksight describe-user 
    --aws-account-id AWSACCOUNTID 
    --namespace default

For more information about the DescribeUser operation, see DescribeUser in the Amazon QuickSight API Reference.

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