Add User

URL:
https://<root>/security/users/add
Methods:
POST
Required Capability:
Access allowed with either the "Update", "Delete", "Security and Infrastructure", or "Servers" privileges
Version Introduced:
10.1

Description

The add operation adds a user account to the user store. This is available only when the user store is a read-write store, such as the default ArcGIS Server store. If the username for the account you're attempting to add already exists in the user store, an error will be returned.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails

username

The name of the user. The name must be unique in the user store.

Example
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username=jwhite

password

The password for this user.

Example
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password=secret

fullname

(Optional)

The full name for the user.

Example
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fullname=John White

description

(Optional)

Adds comments or description for the user account.

Example
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description=A platinum customer

email

(Optional)

An email for the user account.

Example
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email=jwhite@email.com

f

The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

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

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POST /webadaptor/admin/security/users/add HTTP/1.1
Host: machine.domain.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

username=jwhite&password=secret&fullname=John White&description=A platinum customer&email=jwhite@email.com&f=pjson

JSON Response example

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{"status": "success"}

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