diff --git a/openstackclient/identity/v2_0/role.py b/openstackclient/identity/v2_0/role.py
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+++ b/openstackclient/identity/v2_0/role.py
@@ -0,0 +1,268 @@
+# Copyright 2012 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+#
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+"""
+Role action implementations
+"""
+
+import logging
+
+from cliff import lister
+from cliff import show
+
+from openstackclient.common import command
+from openstackclient.common import utils
+
+
+class AddRole(command.OpenStackCommand, show.ShowOne):
+    """Add role to tenant:user"""
+
+    api = 'identity'
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__ + '.AddRole')
+
+    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        parser = super(AddRole, self).get_parser(prog_name)
+        parser.add_argument(
+            'role',
+            metavar='<role>',
+            help='Role name or ID to add to user',
+        )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            '--tenant',
+            metavar='<tenant>',
+            required=True,
+            help='Name or ID of tenant to include',
+        )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            '--user',
+            metavar='<user>',
+            required=True,
+            help='Name or ID of user to include',
+        )
+        return parser
+
+    def get_data(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.debug('get_data(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        identity_client = self.app.client_manager.identity
+        role = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.roles, parsed_args.role)
+        tenant = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.tenants, parsed_args.tenant)
+        user = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.users, parsed_args.user)
+        role = identity_client.roles.add_user_role(
+            user,
+            role,
+            tenant,
+        )
+
+        info = {}
+        info.update(role._info)
+        return zip(*sorted(info.iteritems()))
+
+
+class CreateRole(command.OpenStackCommand, show.ShowOne):
+    """Create new role"""
+
+    api = 'identity'
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__ + '.CreateRole')
+
+    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        parser = super(CreateRole, self).get_parser(prog_name)
+        parser.add_argument(
+            'role_name',
+            metavar='<role-name>',
+            help='New role name',
+        )
+        return parser
+
+    def get_data(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.debug('get_data(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        identity_client = self.app.client_manager.identity
+        role = identity_client.roles.create(
+            parsed_args.role_name,
+        )
+
+        info = {}
+        info.update(role._info)
+        return zip(*sorted(info.iteritems()))
+
+
+class DeleteRole(command.OpenStackCommand):
+    """Delete existing role"""
+
+    api = 'identity'
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__ + '.DeleteRole')
+
+    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        parser = super(DeleteRole, self).get_parser(prog_name)
+        parser.add_argument(
+            'role',
+            metavar='<role>',
+            help='Name or ID of role to delete',
+        )
+        return parser
+
+    def run(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.debug('run(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        identity_client = self.app.client_manager.identity
+        role = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.roles, parsed_args.role)
+        identity_client.roles.delete(role.id)
+        return
+
+
+class ListRole(command.OpenStackCommand, lister.Lister):
+    """List roles"""
+
+    api = 'identity'
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__ + '.ListRole')
+
+    def get_data(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.debug('get_data(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        columns = ('ID', 'Name')
+        data = self.app.client_manager.identity.roles.list()
+        return (columns,
+                (utils.get_item_properties(
+                    s, columns,
+                    formatters={},
+                ) for s in data),
+               )
+
+
+class ListUserRole(command.OpenStackCommand, lister.Lister):
+    """List user-role assignments"""
+
+    api = 'identity'
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__ + '.ListUserRole')
+
+    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        parser = super(ListUserRole, self).get_parser(prog_name)
+        parser.add_argument(
+            'user',
+            metavar='<user>',
+            nargs='?',
+            help='Name or ID of user to include',
+        )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            '--tenant',
+            metavar='<tenant>',
+            help='Name or ID of tenant to include',
+        )
+        return parser
+
+    def get_data(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.debug('get_data(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        columns = ('ID', 'Name', 'Tenant ID', 'User ID')
+        identity_client = self.app.client_manager.identity
+
+        # user-only roles are not supported in KSL so we are
+        # required to have a user and tenant; default to the
+        # values used for authentication if not specified
+        if not parsed_args.tenant:
+            parsed_args.tenant = identity_client.auth_tenant_id
+        if not parsed_args.user:
+            parsed_args.user = identity_client.auth_user_id
+
+        tenant = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.tenants, parsed_args.tenant)
+        user = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.users, parsed_args.user)
+
+        data = identity_client.roles.roles_for_user(user.id, tenant.id)
+
+        # Add the names to the output even though they will be constant
+        for role in data:
+            role.user_id = user.name
+            role.tenant_id = tenant.name
+
+        return (columns,
+                (utils.get_item_properties(
+                    s, columns,
+                    formatters={},
+                ) for s in data),
+               )
+
+
+class RemoveRole(command.OpenStackCommand):
+    """Remove role from tenant:user"""
+
+    api = 'identity'
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__ + '.RemoveRole')
+
+    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        parser = super(RemoveRole, self).get_parser(prog_name)
+        parser.add_argument(
+            'role',
+            metavar='<role>',
+            help='Role name or ID to remove from user',
+        )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            '--tenant',
+            metavar='<tenant>',
+            required=True,
+            help='Name or ID of tenant',
+        )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            '--user',
+            metavar='<user>',
+            required=True,
+            help='Name or ID of user',
+        )
+        return parser
+
+    def get_data(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.debug('get_data(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        identity_client = self.app.client_manager.identity
+        role = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.roles, parsed_args.role)
+        tenant = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.tenants, parsed_args.tenant)
+        user = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.users, parsed_args.user)
+        print "role: %s" % role
+        identity_client.roles.remove_user_role(
+            user.id,
+            role.id,
+            tenant.id,
+        )
+
+
+class ShowRole(command.OpenStackCommand, show.ShowOne):
+    """Show single role"""
+
+    api = 'identity'
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__ + '.ShowRole')
+
+    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        parser = super(ShowRole, self).get_parser(prog_name)
+        parser.add_argument(
+            'role',
+            metavar='<role>',
+            help='Name or ID of role to display',
+        )
+        return parser
+
+    def get_data(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.debug('get_data(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        identity_client = self.app.client_manager.identity
+        role = utils.find_resource(
+            identity_client.roles, parsed_args.role)
+
+        info = {}
+        info.update(role._info)
+        return zip(*sorted(info.iteritems()))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4cfccb0463..8e9d024c68 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ setuptools.setup(
     entry_points={
         'console_scripts': ['openstack=openstackclient.shell:main'],
         'openstack.cli': [
+            'add_role=' +
+                'openstackclient.identity.v2_0.role:AddRole',
+            'create_role=' +
+                'openstackclient.identity.v2_0.role:CreateRole',
+            'delete_role=' +
+                'openstackclient.identity.v2_0.role:DeleteRole',
+            'list_role=openstackclient.identity.v2_0.role:ListRole',
+            'remove_role=' +
+                'openstackclient.identity.v2_0.role:RemoveRole',
+            'show_role=openstackclient.identity.v2_0.role:ShowRole',
             'list_server=openstackclient.compute.v2.server:ListServer',
             'show_server=openstackclient.compute.v2.server:ShowServer',
             'create_endpoint=' +
@@ -89,6 +99,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
             'list_user=openstackclient.identity.v2_0.user:ListUser',
             'set_user=openstackclient.identity.v2_0.user:SetUser',
             'show_user=openstackclient.identity.v2_0.user:ShowUser',
+            'list_user-role=openstackclient.identity.v2_0.role:ListUserRole',
         ]
     }
 )