Adds role ‘Default role’ to the user if it is not already present. Only another admin can change the admin account attribute.

Examples

PUT /api/users/980190962
{
  "user": {
    "admin": true
  }
}
200
{
  "firstname": "One",
  "lastname": "User",
  "mail": "userone@someware.com",
  "admin": true,
  "auth_source_id": 980190962,
  "auth_source_name": "ldap-server",
  "timezone": null,
  "locale": null,
  "last_login_on": "2009-10-12 21:50:04 UTC",
  "created_at": "2018-07-24 13:02:47 UTC",
  "updated_at": "2018-07-24 13:02:49 UTC",
  "id": 980190962,
  "login": "one",
  "description": null,
  "ssh_keys": [],
  "default_location": null,
  "locations": [
    {
      "id": 255093256,
      "name": "Location 1",
      "title": "Location 1",
      "description": null
    }
  ],
  "default_organization": null,
  "organizations": [
    {
      "id": 447626438,
      "name": "Organization 1",
      "title": "Organization 1",
      "description": null
    }
  ],
  "effective_admin": true,
  "cached_usergroups": [],
  "auth_source_ldap": {
    "id": 980190962,
    "type": "AuthSourceLdap",
    "name": "ldap-server"
  },
  "mail_notifications": [],
  "roles": [
    {
      "name": "Viewer",
      "id": 5,
      "description": null,
      "origin": "foreman"
    }
  ],
  "usergroups": []
}

Params

Param name Description
location_id
optional

Scope by locations

Validations:

  • Must be a Integer

organization_id
optional

Scope by organizations

Validations:

  • Must be a Integer

id
required

Validations:

  • Must be a String

user
required

Validations:

  • Must be a Hash

user[login]
optional

Validations:

  • Must be a String

user[firstname]
optional , nil allowed

Validations:

  • Must be a String

user[lastname]
optional , nil allowed

Validations:

  • Must be a String

user[mail]
optional

Validations:

  • Must be a String

user[description]
optional , nil allowed

Validations:

  • Must be a String

user[admin]
optional , nil allowed

is an admin account

Validations:

  • Must be one of: true, false, 1, 0

user[password]
optional

Validations:

  • Must be a String

user[default_location_id]
optional , nil allowed

Validations:

  • Must be a Integer

user[default_organization_id]
optional , nil allowed

Validations:

  • Must be a Integer

user[auth_source_id]
optional

Validations:

  • Must be a Integer

user[timezone]
optional , nil allowed

User’s timezone

Validations:

  • Must be one of: American Samoa, International Date Line West, Midway Island, Hawaii, Alaska,

    Maruku could not parse this XML/HTML: 
    <code>Pacific Time (US & Canada)</code>
    , Tijuana, Arizona, Chihuahua, Mazatlan,
    Maruku could not parse this XML/HTML: 
    <code>Mountain Time (US & Canada)</code>
    , Central America,
    Maruku could not parse this XML/HTML: 
    <code>Central Time (US & Canada)</code>
    , Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, Saskatchewan, Bogota,
    Maruku could not parse this XML/HTML: 
    <code>Eastern Time (US & Canada)</code>
    , Indiana (East), Lima, Quito, Atlantic Time (Canada), Caracas, Georgetown, La Paz, Santiago, Newfoundland, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Greenland, Montevideo, Mid-Atlantic, Azores, Cape Verde Is., Casablanca, Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London, Monrovia, UTC, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Bern, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Rome, Sarajevo, Skopje, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw, West Central Africa, Zagreb, Zurich, Athens, Bucharest, Cairo, Harare, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Kaliningrad, Kyiv, Pretoria, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius, Baghdad, Istanbul, Kuwait, Minsk, Moscow, Nairobi, Riyadh, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Tehran, Abu Dhabi, Baku, Muscat, Samara, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Kabul, Ekaterinburg, Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Sri Jayawardenepura, Kathmandu, Almaty, Astana, Dhaka, Urumqi, Rangoon, Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Irkutsk, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, Singapore, Taipei, Ulaanbaatar, Osaka, Sapporo, Seoul, Tokyo, Yakutsk, Adelaide, Darwin, Brisbane, Canberra, Guam, Hobart, Melbourne, Port Moresby, Sydney, Vladivostok, Magadan, New Caledonia, Solomon Is., Srednekolymsk, Auckland, Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is., Wellington, Chatham Is., Nuku'alofa, Samoa, Tokelau Is..

user[locale]
optional , nil allowed

User’s preferred locale

Validations:

  • Must be one of: pt_BR, de, it, sv_SE, zh_CN, en_GB, fr, ru, ja, es, ko, ca, gl, en, zh_TW, pl.

user[role_ids]
optional , nil allowed

Validations:

  • Must be an array of any type

user[location_ids]
optional , nil allowed

REPLACE locations with given ids

Validations:

  • Must be an array of any type

user[organization_ids]
optional , nil allowed

REPLACE organizations with given ids.

Validations:

  • Must be an array of any type

user[current_password]
optional , nil allowed

Required when user want to change own password

Validations:

  • Must be a String