The rabbitmqctl command with the set_permissions option can be used to update a users account with certain permissions to certain objects. Before issuing the set_permissions command, you will usually want to use the list_user_permissions option to list the users current permissions.

You would use the -p option followed by a virtual host. In this example, virtual host / is specified. The last three options are:

• Configure regexp = the objects the user has configure access to (e.g. .*)
• Write regexp = the objects the user has write access to (e.g. .*)
• Read regexp = the objects the user has read access to (e.g. .*)

rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / john.doe ".*" ".*" ".*"

Something like this should be returned.

Setting permissions for user "john.doe" in vhost "/"