---
title: "Assign an owner to an ownerless connector"
method: POST
path: "/connector/{slug}/owner"
tags: ["Custom connectors"]
---

# Assign an owner to an ownerless connector

`POST /connector/{slug}/owner`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.elaichi.ai`
- URL: `https://api.elaichi.ai/connector/{slug}/owner`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Gives a connector that has no owner an owner, and nothing else — every grant is left as it was. Never moves an existing owner: a connector that already has one answers 409 `connector_has_owner` (that is `POST /connector/{slug}/transfer`, owner only), and so does a claim that loses a race with another claim or the creator backfill. Requires `connector:manage`. The target must be an active member of the organization. Naming yourself additionally requires a real `edit` grant of your own (`can_claim`) — a bare `connector:manage` never makes its holder the owner of a connector nobody shared with them (403); naming someone else needs no grant of yours, so a `connector:manage` holder who reaches nothing may assign it. 404 only for a slug that is not an org-owned connector. Recorded in the audit log as `connector.owner_assigned`. The 200 is the connector as the CALLER now sees it.

## Path parameters

- `slug` string, required

## Headers

- `X-Organization-Id` string

## Request body

- object
  - `owner_user_id` string, required: New owning member (`usr_…`).

## Response `200`

OK

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not found
- `429`: Rate limited

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