---
title: "Set permissions for user."
method: PUT
path: "/admin/users/{user_id}/permissions"
tags: ["admin_users"]
---

# Set permissions for user.

`PUT /admin/users/{user_id}/permissions`

## Request

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

Only works with Basic Authentication (username and password). See introduction for an explanation.
If you are running Grafana Enterprise and have Fine-grained access control enabled, you need to have a permission with action `users.permissions:update` and scope `global.users:*`.

## Path parameters

- `user_id` integer, required

## Request body

- AdminUpdateUserPermissionsForm
  - `isGrafanaAdmin` boolean

## Response `200`

An OKResponse is returned if the request was successful.

- SuccessResponseBody
  - `message` string

## Other responses

- `400`: BadRequestError is returned when the request is invalid and it cannot be processed.
- `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)