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Create User

Use this API to create a new user in OneLogin.

Users can be created with a password specified or without one. In the case where a password is not set the user will be created with a status of 7 (Password Pending) and they will not be able to log in. If you wish to download PKI certificates for a user created via API, they must have this initial status.

An invite email is not sent when users are created via this API.

Resource URL

https://<subdomain>/api/2/users

Header Parameters

Query Parameters

Request Parameters

You must have both a username and email 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 {{ }}.

Clicking Run in Postman button navigates to the page where you can fork the collection to your workspace. Forking the collection into your workspace will enable you to contribute to the source collection using pull requests. You can also view the collection in a public workspace if you like and even import a copy of the collection using the links present on the screen.

Sample Code

cURL

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

curl 'https://<subdomain>/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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