Create a User¶

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Resource
Response
Example Request
Example Response
- Response Header
- Response Body

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the same as your project id. For existing groups, your group/project id remains the same. This page uses the more familiar term group when referring to descriptions. The endpoint remains as stated in the document.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

Resource¶

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POST /users

Create a new user.

Request Path Parameters¶

This endpoint does not use HTTP request path parameters.

Request Query Parameters¶

The following query parameters are optional:

Name Type Description Default

pretty boolean Indicates whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format. false

envelope

boolean

Indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

status: HTTP response code
envelope: The expected response body

false

Request Body Parameters¶

All fields are required.

Name Type Description

username string Username of the Cloud Manager user.

password

string

Password of the Cloud Manager user.

Note

This field is not included in the entity returned from the server. It can only be sent in the entity body when creating a new user.

emailAddress string Email address of the Cloud Manager user.

mobileNumber string Mobile telephone number of the Cloud Manager user.

firstName string First name of the Cloud Manager user.

lastName string Last name of the Cloud Manager user.

roles object array Role assignments of the Cloud Manager user.

roles.orgId string Unique identifier of the organization in which the Cloud Manager user has the specified role.

roles.groupId string Unique identifier of the group in which the Cloud Manager user has the specified role.

roles.roleName

string

Name of the role. Accepted values are:

Value	Description
`ORG_MEMBER`	`Organization Member`
`ORG_READ_ONLY`	`Organization Read Only`
`ORG_BILLING_ADMIN`	`Organization Billing Admin`
`ORG_GROUP_CREATOR`	`Organization Project Creator`
`ORG_OWNER`	`Organization Owner`
`GROUP_ATLAS_ADMIN`	`Project Admin (Atlas)`
`GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN`	`Project Automation Admin`
`GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN`	`Project Backup Admin`
`GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN`	`Project Monitoring Admin`
`GROUP_OWNER`	`Project Owner`
`GROUP_READ_ONLY`	`Project Read Only`
`GROUP_USER_ADMIN`	`Project User Admin`
`GROUP_BILLING_ADMIN`	`Project Billing Admin`
`GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN`	`Project Data Access Admin`
`GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY`	`Project Data Access Read Only`
`GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE`	`Project Data Access Read/Write`

Response¶

The JSON document contains each of the following elements:

Name Type Description

emailAddress string Email address of the Cloud Manager user.

firstName string First name of the Cloud Manager user.

id string Unique identifier of the Cloud Manager user.

lastName string Last name of the Cloud Manager user.

links object array Links to related sub-resources. All links arrays in responses include at least one link called self. The relationship between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification.

mobileNumber string Mobile number of the Cloud Manager user.

roles object array Role assignments.

roles.groupId string Unique identifier for the project in which the user has the specified role.

roles.orgId string Unique identifier for the organization in which the user has the specified role.

roles.roleName

string

Name of the role. Values are:

Note

The users resource returns all the roles the user has in both Cloud Manager and MongoDB Atlas.

Value	Description
`ORG_MEMBER`	`Organization Member`
`ORG_READ_ONLY`	`Organization Read Only`
`ORG_BILLING_ADMIN`	`Organization Billing Admin`
`ORG_GROUP_CREATOR`	`Organization Project Creator`
`ORG_OWNER`	`Organization Owner`
`GROUP_ATLAS_ADMIN`	`Project Admin (Atlas)`
`GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN`	`Project Automation Admin`
`GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN`	`Project Backup Admin`
`GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN`	`Project Monitoring Admin`
`GROUP_OWNER`	`Project Owner`
`GROUP_READ_ONLY`	`Project Read Only`
`GROUP_USER_ADMIN`	`Project User Admin`
`GROUP_BILLING_ADMIN`	`Project Billing Admin`
`GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN`	`Project Data Access Admin`
`GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY`	`Project Data Access Read Only`
`GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE`	`Project Data Access Read/Write`

username string Username of the Cloud Manager user.

Example Request¶

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curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
  --header "Accept: application/json" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --include \
  --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/users" \
  --data '
    {
      "username": "jane",
      "emailAddress": "jane.doe@mongodb.com",
      "firstName": "Jane",
      "lastName": "Doe",
      "password": "M0ng0D8!:)",
      "roles": [{
        "groupId": "533daa30879bb2da07807696",
        "roleName": "GROUP_USER_ADMIN"
      },{
        "orgId" : "55555bbe3bd5253aea2d9b16",
        "roleName" : "ORG_MEMBER"
      }]
    }'

Example Response¶

Response Header¶

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}

Response Body¶

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{
  "id" : "533dc19ce4b00835ff81e2eb",
  "username" : "jane",
  "emailAddress" : "jane.doe@mongodb.com",
  "firstName" : "Jane",
  "lastName" : "Doe",
  "roles" : [ {
    "groupId" : "533daa30879bb2da07807696",
    "roleName" : "GROUP_USER_ADMIN"
  },{
    "orgId" : "55555bbe3bd5253aea2d9b16",
    "roleName" : "ORG_MEMBER"
  } ],
  "links" : []
}

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