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URL:
https://<root>/orgs/<orgID>/security/users/createUser
Methods:
POST
Version Introduced:
10.9

Access requirements

Required privileges

The Enterprise Administrator API requires privilege-based access. An administrator must be assigned a specific user privilege, or role, to access any given endpoint. Listed below are the user privileges or roles an administrator can be assigned that provides access to this endpoint. If multiple privileges are listed, only one needs to be assigned to gain access.


Tokens

This API requires token-based authentication. A token is automatically generated for administrators who sign in to the Enterprise Administrator API directory's HTML interface. Tokens generated in this way are stored for the entirety of the session.

Those accessing the API directory outside of the HTML interface will need to acquire a session token from the generateToken operation in the Enterprise Directory API. For security reasons, all POST requests made to the Enterprise Administrator API must include a token in the request body.


Learn how to generate a token

Description

The createUser operation creates either a built-in (arcgis) user account or an enterprise user account, the designation of which is specified using the provider parameter.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails

username

(Required)

The name of the user account. Eligible user names must be at least six characters in length, using alphanumeric values with only the following symbols allowed:

  • @
  • _
  • ,
  • -
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username=KubeAdmin

password

(Optional; Required if provider is arcgis)

The password for the account. This parameter is required if the provider parameter value is arcgis; otherwise, the password parameter is ignored. Eligible passwords must be at least eight characters in length and contain at least one letter (A-Z, a-z) and one number (0-9). All special characters are supported.

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password=test.pass1

firstname

(Required)

The first name for the user account.

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firstname=John

lastname

(Required)

The last name for the user account.

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lastname=Smith

role

(Required)

The role for the user account. The default value is org_user.

Values: org_admin | org_publisher | org_user | iBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB (Data Editor) | iAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (Viewer)

userLicenseTypeId

(Required)

The user type for the account.

Values: creatorUT | editorUT | GISProfessionalStdUT | GISProfessionalAdvUT | viewerUT | fieldWorkerUT

email

(Required)

The email address for the user account.

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email=jsmith@org.com

provider

(Required)

The provider for the account. The default value is arcgis.

Values: arcgis | enterprise

idpUsername

(Optional; Required if provider is enterprise)

The name of the user as stored by the enterprise user store. This parameter is required if the provider parameter value is enterprise.

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idpUsername=domain\jsmith

description

(Optional)

The user account description.

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description=An administrator account for John Doe.

applyDefaults

Introduced at 11.5. Determines if new member defaults (the user type, member role, add-on licenses, and group memberships that are assigned to new users by default) should be applied to the new user. If specified as true, new member defaults are applied to the user. This parameter can still be set to true even if there are no new member defaults configured for the organization. If set to false, the new member defaults are not applied. The default value is true.

Values: true | false

f

The response format. The default response is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

The following is a sample POST request for the createUser operation:

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POST /<context>/admin/orgs/0123456789ABCDEF/security/users/createUser HTTP/1.1
Host: organization.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

username=KubeAdmin&password=test.pass1&firstname=John&lastname=Smith&role=org_admin&userLicenseTypeId=creatorUT&email=jsmith@org.com&provider=arcgis&idpUsername=&description=&applyDefaults=true&f=pjson&token=Mb0ORrkLObNO2Q8FZoUCHHzSMzZi0CbhLHNRYMqqa6URG_ojQJF3rNsJAfRB23MyCrLwSmuaHPUo4AEIrUuoH1-4Ot5xh4565FtlQahXAhK2C7Sy0oydZhBwD8KdFSnVlnLr-e9uI5ovSWZ2lGNn9SwoV2MPMzeAh_5r-q-wgwF8DTT_nhuCXJGkMRy-48jjGS2aN5FI18STHZ8RAuKxGasH90SI3C7njZzlGCUrY5m6BDhCMsdpZA14GwNX8Cis

JSON Response example

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{"status": "success"}

The following is a sample error message returned when the requirements for the username parameter are not met:

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{
  "error" : {
    "code" : 500,
    "message" : "\"Failed to create user 'tuser'. Invalid username specified. The username must be at least six characters and may only contain Latin-based alphanumeric characters or \"@\", \".\", and \"_\".",
    "details" : null
  }
}

The following is a sample error message returned when the requirements for the password parameter are not met:

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{
  "error" : {
    "code" : 500,
    "message" : "The password does not meet the minimum strength requirement.",
    "details" : null
  }
}

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