Create an Atlas User

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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. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.

The following resource creates a new Atlas user and assigns it to one or more of your Atlas projects and organizations.

Note

Atlas sends an email to the selected users inviting them to join the project. Invited users do not have access to the project until they accept the invitation. Invitations expire after 30 days.

The Atlas Administration API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.

Important

Atlas limits Atlas user membership to a maximum of 250 Atlas users per team.

Atlas limits Atlas user membership to 500 Atlas users per project and 500 Atlas users per organization, which includes the combined membership of all projects in the organization.

Atlas raises an error if an operation exceeds these limits.

Example

You have an organization with five projects. Each project has 100 Atlas users. Each Atlas user belongs to only one project. You cannot add any Atlas users to this organization without first removing existing Atlas users from the organization membership.

Create a new user.

Resource

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

POST /users

Request Path Parameters

This endpoint does not use HTTP request path parameters.

Request Query Parameters

This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas Administration API resources. All of these are optional.

Name

Type

Necessity

Description

Default

pretty

boolean

Optional

Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.

false

envelope

boolean

Optional

Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope.

This option may be needed for some API clients. These 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	Expected response body

false

Request Body Parameters

Body Parameter

Type

Necessity

Description

country

string

Required

ISO-3166-1 alpha 2 country code of the country in which the Atlas user resides.

emailAddress

string

Required

Email address that the Atlas user possesses.

firstName

string

Required

First or given name that identifies the Atlas user.

lastName

string

Required

Last name, family name, or surname that identifies the Atlas user.

mobileNumber

string

Optional

Mobile or cell phone number that the Atlas user possesses.

password

string

Required

String of eight or more characters that authenticates the Atlas user specified with username.

Note

Atlas Password Policy

Your Atlas user account password must:

Contain at least eight characters.
Contain unique characters, numbers, or symbols.
Exclude your email address and Atlas username.
Differ from your previous four passwords.
Differ from the most commonly used passwords.

You can't update the password after it has been created. The user must log into Atlas to update their password.

roles

array

Required

List of Atlas Organizations or Projects to which you assigned the Atlas user and the Atlas role has for the associated organization or project. You can specify either roles.orgId or roles.groupId per entry.

roles.groupId

string

Required

Unique 24-hexidecimal digit string that identifies the project in which the user has the specified roles.roleName.

roles.orgId

string

Required

Unique 24-hexidecimal digit string that identifies the organization in which the user has the specified roles.roleName.

roles.roleName

string

Required

Label that identifies the assigned grouping of Atlas privileges.

When associated to roles.orgId, the valid roles and their mappings include:

Role	Mapping
ORG_OWNER	`Organization Owner`
ORG_GROUP_CREATOR	`Organization Project Creator`
ORG_BILLING_ADMIN	`Organization Billing Admin`
ORG_READ_ONLY	`Organization Read Only`
ORG_MEMBER	`Organization Member`

When associated to roles.groupId, the valid roles and their mappings include:

Role	Mapping
GROUP_OWNER	`Project Owner`
GROUP_CLUSTER_MANAGER	`Project Cluster Manager`
GROUP_READ_ONLY	`Project Read Only`
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN	`Project Data Access Admin`
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE	`Project Data Access Read/Write`
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY	`Project Data Access Read Only`

username

string

Required

Email address that identifies the Atlas user in RFC 5322 format You can't modify the username after it has been created.

Response

The JSON document contains each of the following elements:

Response Parameter

Type

Description

country

string

ISO-3166-1 alpha 2 country code of the country in which the Atlas user resides.

emailAddress

string

Email address that the Atlas user possesses.

firstName

string

First or given name that identifies the Atlas user.

string

Unique 24-hexidecimal digit string that identifies the Atlas user.

lastName

string

Last name, family name, or surname that identifies the Atlas user.

links

array

One or more uniform resource locators that link to sub-resources and/or related resources. The Web Linking Specification explains the relation-types between URLs.

mobileNumber

string

Mobile or cell phone number that the Atlas user possesses.

password

string

String of eight or more characters that authenticates the Atlas user specified with username. Atlas doesn't return this parameter except in response to creating a new user.

You can't update the password after it has been created. The user must log into Atlas to update their password.

roles

array

roles.groupId

string

Unique 24-hexidecimal digit string that identifies the project in which the user has the specified roles.roleName.

roles.orgId

string

Unique 24-hexidecimal digit string that identifies the organization in which the user has the specified roles.roleName.

roles.roleName

string

Label that identifies the assigned grouping of Atlas privileges.

When associated to roles.orgId, the valid roles and their mappings include:

Role	Mapping
ORG_OWNER	`Organization Owner`
ORG_GROUP_CREATOR	`Organization Project Creator`
ORG_BILLING_ADMIN	`Organization Billing Admin`
ORG_READ_ONLY	`Organization Read Only`
ORG_MEMBER	`Organization Member`

When associated to roles.groupId, the valid roles and their mappings include:

Role	Mapping
GROUP_OWNER	`Project Owner`
GROUP_CLUSTER_MANAGER	`Project Cluster Manager`
GROUP_READ_ONLY	`Project Read Only`
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN	`Project Data Access Admin`
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE	`Project Data Access Read/Write`
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY	`Project Data Access Read Only`

teamIds

array

Unique identifiers for each team to which the user belongs.

username

string

Email address that identifies the Atlas user in RFC 5322 format You can't modify the username after it has been created.

Example Request

1 curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest --include \
2      --header "Accept: application/json" \
3      --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
4      --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/users/" \
5      --data '
6        {
7          "username" : "john.doe@example.com",
8          "password" : "myPassword1@",
9          "emailAddress" : "john.doe@example.com",
10          "mobileNumber" : "2125550198",
11          "firstName" : "John",
12          "lastName" : "Doe",
13          "roles" : [
14            {
15              "orgId" : "8dbbe4570bd55b23f25444db",
16              "roleName" : "ORG_MEMBER"
17            },
18            {
19              "groupId" : "2ddoa1233ef88z75f64578ff",
20              "roleName" : "GROUP_READ_ONLY"
21            }
22          ],
23          "country" : "US"
24        }'

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

1 {
2   "emailAddress": "john.doe@example.com",
3   "firstName": "John",
4   "id": "5b06ed7083fb5a40df86e93b",
5   "lastName": "Doe",
6   "links": [
7     {
8       "href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/users/5b06ed7083fb5a40df86e93b",
9       "rel": "self"
10     },
11     {
12       "href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/users/5b06ed7083fb5a40df86e93b/accessList",
13       "rel": "http://mms.mongodb.com/accessList"
14     }
15   ],
16   "mobileNumber" : "2125550198",
17   "roles": [],
18   "teamIds": [],
19   "username": "john.doe@example.com"
20 }

← Get an Atlas User by Name Update Roles for One User →

1	curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest --include \
2	--header "Accept: application/json" \
3	--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
4	--request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/users/" \
5	--data '
6	{
7	"username" : "john.doe@example.com",
8	"password" : "myPassword1@",
9	"emailAddress" : "john.doe@example.com",
10	"mobileNumber" : "2125550198",
11	"firstName" : "John",
12	"lastName" : "Doe",
13	"roles" : [
14	{
15	"orgId" : "8dbbe4570bd55b23f25444db",
16	"roleName" : "ORG_MEMBER"
17	},
18	{
19	"groupId" : "2ddoa1233ef88z75f64578ff",
20	"roleName" : "GROUP_READ_ONLY"
21	}
22	],
23	"country" : "US"
24	}'

1	{
2	"emailAddress": "john.doe@example.com",
3	"firstName": "John",
4	"id": "5b06ed7083fb5a40df86e93b",
5	"lastName": "Doe",
6	"links": [
7	{
8	"href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/users/5b06ed7083fb5a40df86e93b",
9	"rel": "self"
10	},
11	{
12	"href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/users/5b06ed7083fb5a40df86e93b/accessList",
13	"rel": "http://mms.mongodb.com/accessList"
14	}
15	],
16	"mobileNumber" : "2125550198",
17	"roles": [],
18	"teamIds": [],
19	"username": "john.doe@example.com"
20	}

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Create an Atlas User