Assign Roles to Users

You can assign roles to a user using the Auth0 Dashboard or the Management API. The assigned roles can be used with the API Authorization Core feature set.

Prerequisites

For role-based access control (RBAC) to work properly, you must enable it for your API using either the Dashboard or the Management API. The Authorization Core functionality is different from the Authorization Extension. For a comparison, read Authorization Core vs. Authorization Extension.
Roles are selected from pre-defined values. If your list of roles is blank, make sure you create roles first.

Dashboard

There are two ways to assign a role to a user. You can choose a user from the Users list and then assign a role or you can go to the User Details (user profile) page for an individual user and choose a role to assign in the Roles tab.

Assign roles in user list

Go to Dashboard > User Management > Users.
Click ... next to the user you want to modify, and select Assign Roles.
Choose the role(s) you wish to assign, then click Assign.

Assign roles in user profile

You can also assign roles to users from their individual profile page.

Go to Dashboard > User Management > Users and click the name of the user.
Click the Roles view, and click Assign Role.
Choose the role you wish to assign and click Assign.

Management API

Make a POST call to the Assign User Roles endpoint. Be sure to replace USER_ID, MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN, and ROLE_ID placeholder values with your user ID, Management API access token, and role ID(s), respectively.

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curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles' \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
  --header 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{ "roles": [ "ROLE_ID", "ROLE_ID" ] }'

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var client = new RestClient("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN");
request.AddHeader("cache-control", "no-cache");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{ \"roles\": [ \"ROLE_ID\", \"ROLE_ID\" ] }", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{ \"roles\": [ \"ROLE_ID\", \"ROLE_ID\" ] }")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN")
	req.Header.Add("cache-control", "no-cache")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

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HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles")
  .header("content-type", "application/json")
  .header("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN")
  .header("cache-control", "no-cache")
  .body("{ \"roles\": [ \"ROLE_ID\", \"ROLE_ID\" ] }")
  .asString();

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var axios = require("axios").default;

var options = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles',
  headers: {
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    authorization: 'Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN',
    'cache-control': 'no-cache'
  },
  data: {roles: ['ROLE_ID', 'ROLE_ID']}
};

axios.request(options).then(function (response) {
  console.log(response.data);
}).catch(function (error) {
  console.error(error);
});

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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"content-type": @"application/json",
                           @"authorization": @"Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN",
                           @"cache-control": @"no-cache" };
NSDictionary *parameters = @{ @"roles": @[ @"ROLE_ID", @"ROLE_ID" ] };

NSData *postData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:parameters options:0 error:nil];

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles"]
                                                       cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                                   timeoutInterval:10.0];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
                                            completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                if (error) {
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", error);
                                                } else {
                                                    NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse);
                                                }
                                            }];
[dataTask resume];

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$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{ \"roles\": [ \"ROLE_ID\", \"ROLE_ID\" ] }",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "authorization: Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "cache-control: no-cache",
    "content-type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

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import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")

payload = "{ \"roles\": [ \"ROLE_ID\", \"ROLE_ID\" ] }"

headers = {
    'content-type': "application/json",
    'authorization': "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    'cache-control': "no-cache"
    }

conn.request("POST", "/{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

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require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'
request["authorization"] = 'Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'
request["cache-control"] = 'no-cache'
request.body = "{ \"roles\": [ \"ROLE_ID\", \"ROLE_ID\" ] }"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

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import Foundation

let headers = [
  "content-type": "application/json",
  "authorization": "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN",
  "cache-control": "no-cache"
]
let parameters = ["roles": ["ROLE_ID", "ROLE_ID"]] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/users/USER_ID/roles")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()

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Value	Description
`USER_ID`	Τhe ID of the user to be updated.
`MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN`	Access Token for the Management API with the scopes `read:roles` and `update:users`.
`ROLE_ID`	ID(s) of the role(s) you would like to add for the specified user.

Manage Users

Assign Roles to Users

Prerequisites

Dashboard

Assign roles in user list

Assign roles in user profile

Management API

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