Required. The unique ID for the user in formatusers/{user}/projects/{project}.
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"regions":[string]}
Fields
regions[]
string
Optional. The regions to wait for a POSIX account to be written to before returning a response. If unspecified, defaults to all regions. Regions are listed athttps://cloud.google.com/about/locations#region.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance ofPosixAccount.
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