Assign Roles

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

Description

The assignRoles operation assigns roles to a user account when working with a user and role store that support reads and writes. By assigning a role to a user, the user account automatically inherits all the permissions that have been assigned to the role.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails

username

The name of the user.

Example
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username=jwhite

roles

A comma-separated list of role names. Each of the listed role names must exist in the role store.

Example
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roles=editors,planners

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 assignRoles operation:

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

username=jwhite&roles=editors,planners&f=pjson

JSON Response example

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{"status": "success"}

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