---
title: "Finds an user based on a username in LDAP. This helps illustrate how would the particular user be mapped in Grafana when synced."
method: GET
path: "/admin/ldap/{user_name}"
tags: ["admin_ldap"]
---

# Finds an user based on a username in LDAP. This helps illustrate how would the particular user be mapped in Grafana when synced.

`GET /admin/ldap/{user_name}`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/admin/ldap/{user_name}`
- Auth: HTTP basic

If you are running Grafana Enterprise and have Fine-grained access control enabled, you need to have a permission with action `ldap.user:read`.

## Path parameters

- `user_name` string, required

## Response `200`

An OKResponse is returned if the request was successful.

- SuccessResponseBody
  - `message` string

## Other responses

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

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api/revisions/df55ba1718ba?raw)