1Update User Role

1Update User Role

Overview

This API assigns a new role or updates the existing role of a user in the system.

Method: PUT

Request URL: {kyvos-url}/rest/v2/users/{name-or-id}/role


Authorization

API Key: sessionid

This method authenticates requests using a session ID which acts like an API key.


BasicAuth: HTTP Authorization Scheme

This method authenticates requests using a username and password sent in the HTTP Authorization header.


Headers

Header Name

Type

Description

Possible Values

Header Name

Type

Description

Possible Values

Content-Type (Required)

String

Specifies the media type of the request body.

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

sessionid

String

The session ID is the token received from the login API.

Note: Session ID is required for token-based authentication.

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Path Parameters

Parameter Name

Type

Description

Possible Values

Parameter Name

Type

Description

Possible Values

name-or-id (Required)

String

Name or ID of the User whose role is to be assigned or updated.

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Query Parameters

Parameter Name

Type

Description

Possible Values

Parameter Name

Type

Description

Possible Values

by

String

Specifies whether the name-or-id parameter should be interpreted as a User name or User ID.

If by=name, provide the User name in the name-or-id parameter.

If by=id, provide the User ID in the name-or-id parameter.

The default value is name.

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Request Body

Parameter Name

Type

Description

Possible Values

Parameter Name

Type

Description

Possible Values

role (Required)

String

Value of the new role to be assigned to the User.

"Administrator", "Designer", "Business User", "End User"


Responses

200 Success

{ "code": 0, "message": "Successfully updated user: test-user" }

Status Code

Description

Status Code

Description

401

Authorization information is missing or invalid.

404

Connection, database, schema, or table not found.

412

Precondition failed. Required parameter missing.

500

Internal Server Error


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