---
title: "Link an identity to a user (Admin)"
method: POST
path: "/api/admin/users/{user_id}/identities"
tags: ["users", "admin"]
---

# Link an identity to a user (Admin)

`POST /api/admin/users/{user_id}/identities`

Manually link an OAuth provider identity to a user. Requires Super Admin credentials.

### Identity Binding:
- **provider**: The login provider name (e.g. `github`, `twitter`).
- **uid**: The provider's unique user identifier.
- **username**: The user's username on the provider's service.

## Path parameters

- `user_id` integer, required

## Request body

- object
  - `provider` string, required
  - `uid` string, required
  - `username` string

## Response `201`

created

## Changes

> 59 revisions in range; 8 could not be searched.

- **2026-07-13** (v1) `189b62b952ea` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2026-07-13** (v1) `7db6ba099285` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2023-01-10** (v1) `754f8b25f815` — 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/forem/apis/forem-api-v1/changes/api/admin/users/:user_id/identities/post.md)

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