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# users

Contains a list of [user accounts](../../operations/access-rights.md#user-account-management) configured at the server.

Columns:
-    `name` ([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md)) — User name.

-    `id` ([UUID](../../sql-reference/data-types/uuid.md)) — User ID.

-    `storage` ([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md)) — Path to the storage of users. Configured in the `access_control_path` parameter.

-    `auth_type` ([Enum8](../../sql-reference/data-types/enum.md)('no_password' = 0,'plaintext_password' = 1, 'sha256_password' = 2, 'double_sha1_password' = 3)) — Shows the authentication type. There are multiple ways of user identification: with no password, with plain text password, with [SHA256](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2)-encoded password or with [double SHA-1](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1)-encoded password.

-    `auth_params` ([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md)) — Authentication parameters in the JSON format depending on the `auth_type`.

-    `host_ip` ([Array](../../sql-reference/data-types/array.md)([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md))) — IP addresses of hosts that are allowed to connect to the ClickHouse server.

-    `host_names` ([Array](../../sql-reference/data-types/array.md)([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md))) — Names of hosts that are allowed to connect to the ClickHouse server.

-    `host_names_regexp` ([Array](../../sql-reference/data-types/array.md)([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md))) — Regular expression for host names that are allowed to connect to the ClickHouse server.

-    `host_names_like` ([Array](../../sql-reference/data-types/array.md)([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md))) — Names of hosts that are allowed to connect to the ClickHouse server, set using the LIKE predicate.

-    `default_roles_all` ([UInt8](../../sql-reference/data-types/int-uint.md#uint-ranges)) — Shows that all granted roles set for user by default.

-    `default_roles_list` ([Array](../../sql-reference/data-types/array.md)([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md))) — List of granted roles provided by default.

-    `default_roles_except` ([Array](../../sql-reference/data-types/array.md)([String](../../sql-reference/data-types/string.md))) — All the granted roles set as default excepting of the listed ones.

## See Also {#see-also}

-   [SHOW USERS](../../sql-reference/statements/show.md#show-users-statement)

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