---
title: "Create Assigned Role for System Account"
method: POST
path: "/v3/system-accounts/{accountId}/assigned-roles"
tags: ["System Accounts - Roles"]
---

# Create Assigned Role for System Account

`POST /v3/system-accounts/{accountId}/assigned-roles`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://global.api.konghq.com`
- URL: `https://global.api.konghq.com/v3/system-accounts/{accountId}/assigned-roles`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer

Assigns a role to a system account. Returns 409 if role is already assigned.

## Request body

- object: An assigned role is a role that has been assigned to a user or team.
  - `role_name` 'Admin' | 'Appearance Maintainer' | 'Application Registration' | 'Certificate Admin' | 'Cloud Gateway Cluster Admin' | 'Cloud Gateway Cluster Viewer' | 'Consumer Admin' | 'Connector' | 'Creator' | 'Debug Session Creator' | 'Deployer' | 'Discovery Admin' | 'Discovery Viewer' | 'Editor' | 'Gateway Service Admin' | 'Integration Admin' | 'Integration Viewer' | 'Key Admin' | 'Maintainer' | 'Network Admin' | 'Network Creator' | 'Network Viewer' | 'Plugin Admin' | 'Plugins Admin' | 'Product Publisher' | 'Publisher' | 'Route Admin' | 'SNI Admin' | 'Scorecard Admin' | 'Scorecard Viewer' | 'Service Admin' | 'Service Creator' | 'Service Viewer' | 'Upstream Admin' | 'Vault Admin' | 'Viewer' | 'Registration Approver' | 'Content Editor' | 'Add On Admin' | 'Add On Viewer': The desired role.
  - `entity_id` string, uuid: The ID of the entity.
  - `entity_type_name` 'Add Ons' | 'APIs' | 'API Products' | 'Application Auth Strategies' | 'Audit Logs' | 'Control Planes' | 'Dashboards' | 'DCR Providers' | 'Mesh Control Planes' | 'Networks' | 'Portals' | 'Reports' | 'Service Hub' | 'Auth Servers': The type of entity.
  - `entity_region` 'us' | 'eu' | 'au' | 'me' | 'in' | 'sg' | '*': Region of the team.

## Response `201`

A get action response of a single assigned role.

- AssignedRole: An assigned role is a role that has been assigned to a user or team.
  - `id` string, uuid: The ID of the role assignment.
  - `role_name` string: Name of the role being assigned.
  - `entity_id` string, uuid: A RBAC entity ID.
  - `entity_type_name` string: Name of the entity type the role is being assigned to.
  - `entity_region` 'us' | 'eu' | 'au' | 'me' | 'in' | 'sg' | '*': Region of the entity.

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthenticated
- `403`: Unauthorized
- `404`: Not Found
- `409`: Conflict

## Changes

- **2026-09-25** `68d43091b84d`: 3 warning
  - added the new `401.00` enum value to the `status` response property for the response status `401`
  - added the new `404.00` enum value to the `status` response property for the response status `404`
  - added the new `409.00` enum value to the `status` response property for the response status `409`
- **2026-09-18** `f324fb7610e4`: 3 breaking, 23 info
  - the response's body type changed from no type to `object` for status `401`
  - the response's body type changed from no type to `object` for status `404`
  - the response's body type changed from no type to `object` for status `409`
  - removed `#/components/schemas/BaseError, subschema #2` from the response body `allOf` list for the response status `401`
  - …22 more
- **2026-05-20** `ccc33535acb5`: 1 breaking, 1 info
  - removed the enum value `Identity` of the request property `entity_type_name`
  - added the new `Auth Servers` enum value to the request property `entity_type_name`
- **2026-04-27** `f48a778e1edc`: 3 info
  - added the new `Add On Admin` enum value to the request property `role_name`
  - added the new `Add On Viewer` enum value to the request property `role_name`
  - added the new `Add Ons` enum value to the request property `entity_type_name`
- **2026-03-30** `6dabb1df19ab`: 1 info
  - added the new `Debug Session Creator` enum value to the request property `role_name`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/kong/apis/konnect-api-go-sdk/changes/v3/system-accounts/:accountId/assigned-roles/post.md)

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