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Create User

Use this API to create a new user in OneLogin.

Users can be created with/without a password specified. In the case where a password isn’t set, the user is created with a status of 7 (Password Pending) and can’t login.

An invite email isn’t sent when users are created via this API.

Resource URL

https://<api-domain>/api/2/users

Header Parameters

Query Parameters

Request Parameters

You must have either a username, email, or both set as the minimum requirement for creating a user.

Sample Request Body

Create a user with minimum required fields.

{
  "username":"min.requirements"
}

or

{
  "email":"min.requirements@onelogin.com"
}

Create a user with password and custom attribute value.

{
  "firstname":"Happy",
  "lastname":"Gilmore",
  "username":"happy.gilmore",
  "password": "helloworld123",
  "password_confirmation": "helloworld123",
  "custom_attributes": {
    "food": "pizza"
  }
}

Create a user without a password.

{
    "email": "chacha@oneloginc.com",
    "department": "Fish Tank Cleaners",
    "company": "Tropical Fish World",
    "username": "chacha",
    "title": "Cleaner",
    "comment": "This is a comment",
    "group_id": 461331,
    "role_ids": [272445],
    "custom_attributes": {
        "employeenumber": "Z88765543",
        "food": "Sushi"
    },
    "invalid_login_attempts": 0,
    "phone": "+1555987654",
    "manager_user_id": null,
    "samaccountname": "chacha.ad",
    "directory_id": null,
    "lastname": "Cha",
    "userprincipalname": "chacha.principle",
    "distinguished_name": "sir.chacha",
    "external_id": "z9876",
    "firstname": "Cha"
}

Sample Response

{
    "created_at": "2020-07-16T03:29:41.420Z",
    "id": 87735981,
    "state": 1,
    "department": null,
    "email": null,
    "last_login": null,
    "password_changed_at": "2020-07-16T03:29:41.377Z",
    "preferred_locale_code": null,
    "firstname": "Scuba",
    "status": 1,
    "userprincipalname": null,
    "title": null,
    "role_ids": [],
    "custom_attributes": {
        "food": null,
        "employeenumber": null
    },
    "lastname": "Steve",
    "updated_at": "2020-07-16T03:29:41.420Z",
    "member_of": null,
    "phone": null,
    "company": null,
    "username": "scuba.steve",
    "manager_ad_id": null,
    "activated_at": null,
    "samaccountname": null,
    "directory_id": null,
    "external_id": null,
    "group_id": null,
    "invalid_login_attempts": 0,
    "invitation_sent_at": null,
    "trusted_idp_id": null,
    "comment": null,
    "distinguished_name": null,
    "locked_until": null,
    "manager_user_id": null
}

{
    "message": "unknown attribute: employee_number",
    "name": "BadRequestError",
    "statusCode": 400
}

{
    "message": "Unauthorized",
    "name": "UnauthorizedError",
    "statusCode": 401
}

{
    "message": "Validation failed: Username must be unique within {subdomain}",
    "name": "UnprocessableEntityError",
    "statusCode": 422
}

{
    "message": "Validation failed: Your new password and confirmation password do not match",
    "name": "UnprocessableEntityError",
    "statusCode": 422
}

Postman Collection

Replace sample variables indicated by < > in the sample request body with your actual values. Also, be sure to set Postman-specific environment variables indicated by {{ }}.

Download for the Users API

Sample Code

cURL

Replace sample values indicated by < > with your actual values.

curl 'https://<api-domain>/api/2/users' \
-X POST \
-H "Authorization: bearer <access_token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "firstname":"<firstname>",
  "lastname":"<lastname>",
  "email":"<email>",
  "username":"<username>"
}'

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