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Assign Roles

Use this API to assign a privilege to one or more roles.

This is a useful way to bulk assign privileges to many users.

Required Feature

A OneLogin subscription that includes Delegated Administration is required to use the privileges API.



Resource URL

POST https://<subdomain>/api/1/privileges/:id/roles

Header Parameters

Authorization

required

string

Set to Bearer <access_token>.

Set <access_token> to the access token you generated using the Generate Token API.

Generate the access token with the API credential pair created using the scope required to call this API. Call this API with the Manage All scope.

Content-Type

required

string

 Set to application/json.

Resource Parameter

id

required

string

Set to the id of the privilege.

Request Parameters

roles

required

array

Array of role_ids to which the privilege will be assigned

Sample Request Body

Add the following roles to the privilege.

{
    "roles": [123, 456, 789]
}

Sample Response

  • 201 Created
  • 400 Bad Request
  • 401 Unauthorized
{
    "success": true
}

Check request body and content-type is set to application/json.

{
    "statusCode": 400,
    "name": "BadRequestError",
    "message": "The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax"
}

Typically, this error indicates an invalid access token.

{
    "statusCode": 401,
    "name": "UnauthorizedError",
    "message": "The request requires user authentication."
}

Sample Code

cURL

curl 'https://<subdomain>/api/1/privileges/<privilege_id>/roles' \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" \
-d '{
    "roles": [123, 456, 789]
}'

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