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Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {PROJECT-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.

Create a new user. By default, any non-global organization and project roles in the payload send users an invitation to the organization or project first.

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

POST /users

This endpoint doesn't use HTTP request path parameters.

The following query parameters are optional:

Name
Type
Necessity
Description
Default
pretty
boolean
Optional
false
envelope
boolean
Optional

Flag that 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:

Name
Description
status
HTTP response code
envelope
Expected response body
false

All fields are required.

Name
Type
Description
username
string
Username of the Cloud Manager user. Must be a valid email address.
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.
country
string
Primary country where the Cloud Manager user is based. Must match a two-letter ISO 3661-1 country code.
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
ORG_READ_ONLY
ORG_BILLING_ADMIN
ORG_GROUP_CREATOR
ORG_OWNER
GROUP_ATLAS_ADMIN
Project Admin (Atlas)
GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN
GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN
GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN
GROUP_OWNER
GROUP_READ_ONLY
GROUP_USER_ADMIN
GROUP_BILLING_ADMIN
Project Billing Admin
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE

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
empty array
Role assigned to the Cloud Manager user.
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. Accepted values are:

Note

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

Value
Description
ORG_MEMBER
ORG_READ_ONLY
ORG_BILLING_ADMIN
Organization Billing Admin
ORG_GROUP_CREATOR
ORG_OWNER
GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN
GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN
GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN
GROUP_OWNER
GROUP_READ_ONLY
GROUP_USER_ADMIN
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE
username
string
Username of the Cloud Manager user.
1curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
2 --header "Accept: application/json" \
3 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
4 --include \
5 --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/users" \
6 --data '
7 {
8 "username": "jane.doe@mongodb.com",
9 "emailAddress": "jane.doe@mongodb.com",
10 "firstName": "Jane",
11 "lastName": "Doe",
12 "password": "M0ng0D8!:)",
13 "country" : "US",
14 "roles": [{
15 "groupId": "533daa30879bb2da07807696",
16 "roleName": "GROUP_USER_ADMIN"
17 },{
18 "orgId" : "55555bbe3bd5253aea2d9b16",
19 "roleName" : "ORG_MEMBER"
20 }]
21 }'
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}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}
{
"id" : "533dc19ce4b00835ff81e2eb",
"username" : "jane.doe@mongodb.com",
"emailAddress" : "jane.doe@mongodb.com",
"firstName" : "Jane",
"lastName" : "Doe",
"roles" : [],
"links" : []
}
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