---
title: "Add a user role assignment."
method: POST
path: "/access-control/users/{userId}/roles"
tags: ["access_control", "enterprise"]
---

# Add a user role assignment.

`POST /access-control/users/{userId}/roles`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/access-control/users/{userId}/roles`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - API key in header `Authorization`

Assign a role to a specific user. For bulk updates consider Set user role assignments.

You need to have a permission with action `users.roles:add` and scope `permissions:type:delegate`. `permissions:type:delegate` scope ensures that users can only assign roles which have same, or a subset of permissions which the user has. For example, if a user does not have required permissions for creating users, they won’t be able to assign a role which will allow to do that. This is done to prevent escalation of privileges.

## Path parameters

- `userId` integer, required

## Request body

- AddUserRoleCommand
  - `global` boolean
  - `roleUid` string

## Response `200`

An OKResponse is returned if the request was successful.

- SuccessResponseBody
  - `message` string

## Other responses

- `403`: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
- `404`: NotFoundError is returned when the requested resource was not found.
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

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