---
title: "Create new user."
method: POST
path: "/admin/users"
tags: ["admin_users"]
---

# Create new user.

`POST /admin/users`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/admin/users`
- 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:create`.
Note that OrgId is an optional parameter that can be used to assign a new user to a different organization when `auto_assign_org` is set to `true`.

## Request body

- AdminCreateUserForm
  - `email` string
  - `login` string
  - `name` string
  - `orgId` integer
  - `password` string

## Response `200`

(empty)

- AdminCreateUserResponse
  - `id` integer
  - `message` string
  - `uid` 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.
- `412`: PreconditionFailedError
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

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