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Create a user

If an external authentication mechanism is used, the login name should match the login name in the external system. If you are using LDAP authentication, you should also [update the LDAP mapping](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/reference/enterprise-admin#update-ldap-mapping-for-a-user) for the user. The login name will be normalized to only contain alphanumeric characters or single hyphens. For example, if you send `"octo_cat"` as the login, a user named `"octo-cat"` will be created. If the login name or email address is already associated with an account, the server will return a `422` response.

POST/admin/users
Source
github-v3-rest.json
Revision
f5f067c1e6f6
Active snapshot
85e53e3d0d65

Request

Body Params
required
application/jsonobject
email string
optional

**Required for built-in authentication.** The user's email address. This parameter can be omitted when using CAS, LDAP, or SAML. For details on built-in and centrally-managed authentication, see the the [GitHub authentication guide](https://docs.github.com/enterprise/2.18/admin/guides/user-management/authenticating-users-for-your-github-enterprise-server-instance/).

login string
required

The user's username.

Responses

application/json Simple User object

Response

avatar_url string<uri>
required

Example: https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif

email string
optionalnullable
events_url string
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}

followers_url string<uri>
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers

following_url string
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}

gists_url string
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}

gravatar_id string
requirednullable

Example: 41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7

html_url string<uri>
required

Example: https://github.com/octocat

id integer
required

Example: 1

login string
required

Example: octocat

name string
optionalnullable
node_id string
required

Example: MDQ6VXNlcjE=

organizations_url string<uri>
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs

received_events_url string<uri>
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events

repos_url string<uri>
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos

site_admin boolean
required
starred_at string
optional

Example: "2020-07-09T00:17:55Z"

starred_url string
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}

subscriptions_url string<uri>
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions

type string
required

Example: User

url string<uri>
required

Example: https://api.github.com/users/octocat