---
title: Set
url: https://docs.vultr.com/reference/vultr-cli/bare-metal/user-data/set
description: Updates the cloud-init initialization script for a specified bare metal server instance.
publish_date: 2025-09-14T03:01:24.763313Z
last_updated: 2025-11-07T17:39:13.703048Z
---

The `vultr-cli bare-metal user-data set` command allows you to set or update custom user data scripts for a specified Bare Metal instance on Vultr's platform.

## Usage

```console
$ vultr-cli bare-metal user-data set <Bare Metal ID> [flags]
```

## Flags
| Shorthand | Long Version | Description |
|-----------|--------------|-------------|
| -d | --user-data | file to read userdata from |