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Updates an existing user

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Updates an existing user

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Updates an existing user.

Request

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PATCH /api/v1/users/{user_name}

Path parameters

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Name	Type	Required	Description
`user_name`	`string`	Y	Identifier for the user

Request body

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(User) (required) The user to update

Responses

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200: (User) User successfully updated
400: (BasicFailedReply) Invalid request
403: (BasicFailedReply) Invalid permissions
404: (BasicFailedReply) User not found
449: (BasicFailedReply) Elevated permissions are required. (code: 'root.unauthorized.rbac.elevated_permissions_required')

To perform this operation, you must be authenticated by means of one of the following methods: apiKey, basicAuth.

Request example

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curl -XPATCH {{hostname}}/api/v1/users/{user_name} \
-u $CLOUD_USER:$CLOUD_KEY \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '
{
   "builtin" : true,
   "email" : "string",
   "full_name" : "string",
   "metadata" : {
      "created_at" : "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "created_by" : "string",
      "first_login_at" : "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "last_login_at" : "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "updated_at" : "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "updated_by" : "string"
   },
   "security" : {
      "elevated_permissions" : {
         "enabled" : true,
         "expires_at" : "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z"
      },
      "enabled" : true,
      "password" : "string",
      "permissions" : [
         "string"
      ],
      "roles" : [
         "string"
      ],
      "security_realm" : {
         "id" : "string",
         "type" : "string"
      }
   },
   "user_name" : "string"
}
'

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