---
title: "Enable user."
method: POST
path: "/admin/users/{user_id}/enable"
tags: ["admin_users"]
---

# Enable user.

`POST /admin/users/{user_id}/enable`

## Request

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

If you are running Grafana Enterprise and have Fine-grained access control enabled, you need to have a permission with action `users:enable` and scope `global.users:1` (userIDScope).

## Path parameters

- `user_id` integer, 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.
- `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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