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All mcs needs is a MinIO user with admin privileges and URL pointing to your MinIO deployment.
Note: We don't recommend using MinIO's Operator Credentials
- Create a user for 
mcsusingmc. 
$ set +o history
$ mc admin user add myminio mcs YOURMCSSECRET
$ set -o history
- Create a policy for 
mcswith access to everything (for testing and debugging) 
$ cat > mcsAdmin.json << EOF
{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [{
			"Action": [
				"admin:*"
			],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Sid": ""
		},
		{
			"Action": [
                "s3:*"
			],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:s3:::*"
			],
			"Sid": ""
		}
	]
}
EOF
$ mc admin policy add myminio mcsAdmin mcsAdmin.json
- Set the policy for the new 
mcsuser 
$ mc admin policy set myminio mcsAdmin user=mcs
Additionally, you can create policies to limit the privileges for mcs users, for example, if you want the user to only have access to dashboard, buckets, notifications and watch page, the policy should look like this:
{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [{
			"Action": [
				"admin:ServerInfo",
			],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Sid": ""
		},
		{
			"Action": [
				"s3:ListenBucketNotification",
				"s3:PutBucketNotification",
				"s3:GetBucketNotification",
				"s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
				"s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
				"s3:ListBucket",
				"s3:HeadBucket",
				"s3:GetObject",
				"s3:GetBucketLocation",
				"s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
				"s3:CreateBucket",
				"s3:PutObject",
				"s3:DeleteObject",
				"s3:DeleteBucket",
				"s3:PutBucketPolicy",
				"s3:DeleteBucketPolicy",
				"s3:GetBucketPolicy"
			],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:s3:::*"
			],
			"Sid": ""
		}
	]
}
To run the server:
export MCS_HMAC_JWT_SECRET=YOURJWTSIGNINGSECRET
#required to encrypt jwet payload
export MCS_PBKDF_PASSPHRASE=SECRET
#required to encrypt jwet payload
export MCS_PBKDF_SALT=SECRET
export MCS_ACCESS_KEY=mcs
export MCS_SECRET_KEY=YOURMCSSECRET
export MCS_MINIO_SERVER=http://localhost:9000
./mcs server
...
export MCS_MINIO_SERVER_TLS_SKIP_VERIFICATION=on
export MCS_MINIO_SERVER=https://localhost:9000
./mcs server
You can verify that the apis work by doing the request on localhost:9090/api/v1/...
Please follow mcs Contributor's Guide

