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Posted: **Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:12 am**

Hi,

I'm trying to add a user via the API, but it always complains that it's missing mandatory parameters:

HTTP 400 - Bad Request, Message {"code":400,"status":"fail","message":"Cannot create user, missing mandatory parameters (60043)."}

I've used a GET on an existing user and based on the returned parameters, plus the Howto documentation, I've tried various combinations with the following:

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user_data = {
    'username':     'testuser',
    'password':     'notneeded-extauthused',
    'email':        'test.user@email.com', 
    'extauth':      'radius', 
    'ram':          '-1', 
    'cpu':          '-1', 
    'expiration':   '-1',
    'datestart':    '-1',
    'name':         'Test User',
    'role':         'admin',
    'pod':          '-1',
    'pexpiration':  '-1',
    'session':      '-1'
    }

But I always get the same error. What are the mandatory parameters for adding a user? Or how I can troubleshoot it in Eve-NG? api.txt is always 0 bytes.

Posted: **Thu Dec 17, 2020 11:00 am**

Forget it.. after a break, I found the problem. In my python script, I was passing the dict itself, not a string. I used json.dump() to convert the dict to a string and all works fine now.

In case anyone ever needs to add users via API, here's a very basic example to add one user and folder at least:

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

### Script to test API based user admin

import requests
import sys
import argparse
import json

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("host", help="EVE hostname or IP", type=str)
args = parser.parse_args()

### Declare variables
eve_host = args.host
username = "username"
password = "password"

### Open http session, authenticate and get cookie from EVE-ng
resp = requests.session()
base_url = "https://" + eve_host + "/api"
creds = '{"username":"'+username+'","password":"'+password+'","html5":"-1"}'
resp.post(base_url + '/auth/login', data=creds, verify=False)
auth_cookie = dict(resp.cookies)

### Function to place API call
def call_api(command):
    print("Getting "+base_url+command)
    resp = requests.get(base_url + "/" + command, headers={'Content-Type':'application/json'}, cookies=auth_cookie, verify = False)
    if resp.status_code != 200:  # at least give the HTTP error code if something went wrong.
        print("HTTP %i - %s, Message %s" % (resp.status_code, resp.reason, resp.text))
        sys.exit(1)
    return(resp.json())

def post_to_api(function, data_dict, expect_status_code = 200):
    resp = requests.post(base_url + '/' + function, data=json.dumps(data_dict), headers={'Content-Type':'application/json'}, cookies=auth_cookie, verify = False)
    if (resp.status_code != expect_status_code):  # at least give the HTTP error code if something went wrong.
        print("HTTP %i - %s, Message %s" % (resp.status_code, resp.reason, resp.text))
        sys.exit(1)
    return(resp.json())

folder_data = {
    'path':         '/Users',
    'name':         'testuser1'}

user_data = {
    'username':     'testuser1',
    'password':     'notneeded-extauthused',
    'email':        'test.user@email.local', 
    'extauth':      'radius', 
#    'ram':          '-1', 
#    'cpu':          '-1', 
#    'expiration':   '-1',
#    'datestart':    '-1',
    'name':         'Test User',
    'role':         'admin',
#    'pod':          '-1',
#    'pexpiration':  '-1',
#    'session':      '-1'
}

#print(call_api("users/admin"))
print(post_to_api("users", user_data, expect_status_code = 201))
print(post_to_api("folders", folder_data))

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