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The fine-grained REST API described here may not be the best fit for your use case. See the following pages for alternatives: : Administer all entities at once. Managing Users via REST

Before executing any of the actions below, you need to execute the following steps to get the authentication token:

Preparation: Login to get authentication token

export NEVISADMIN_URL=http://localhost:9080
export ADMIN_USER=admin
export ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
# for https, you can add the -k flag to all curl commands to skip certificate verification
export AUTH_RESPONSE=$(curl -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -d "{\"userKey\":\"${ADMIN_USER}\",\"password\":\"${ADMIN_PASSWORD}\"}" "$NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/login?tokenType=bearer")
export TOKEN=$(echo $AUTH_RESPONSE | sed -nE 's/.*"token" : "(.*)" }/\1/p')

Create User

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to create additional user accounts within nevisAdmin 4:

export USER_KEY=john
export USER_PASSWORD=secret
export [email protected]
export USER_GIVEN_NAME=John
export USER_FAMILY_NAME=Doe
export USER_DATA="{\"userKey\":\"${USER_KEY}\",\"password\":\"${USER_PASSWORD}\" ,\"email\":\"${USER_EMAIL}\" ,\"familyName\":\"${USER_FAMILY_NAME}\", \"givenName\":\"${USER_GIVEN_NAME}\"}"
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request POST --data "$USER_DATA" $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/users

Update User

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to update user accounts within nevisAdmin 4:

export USER_KEY=john
export [email protected]
export USER_GIVEN_NAME=John
export USER_FAMILY_NAME=Doe
export USER_DATA="{\"userKey\":\"${USER_KEY}\" ,\"email\":\"${USER_EMAIL}\" ,\"familyName\":\"${USER_FAMILY_NAME}\", \"givenName\":\"${USER_GIVEN_NAME}\"}"
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request PUT --data "$USER_DATA" $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/users/$USER_KEY

Update User Password

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to update users passwords within nevisAdmin 4:

export NEW_PASSWORD=mysecretnewpassword
export USER_DATA="{ \"password\": \"$NEW_PASSWORD\" }"
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request PUT --data "$USER_DATA" $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/users/$USER_KEY/password

Delete User

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to delete user accounts within nevisAdmin 4:

export USER_KEY=john
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request DELETE $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/users/$USER_KEY

Managing Groups via REST

Before executing any of the actions below, you need to execute the following steps to get the authentication token:

Preparation: Login to get authentication token

export NEVISADMIN_URL=http://localhost:9080
export ADMIN_USER=admin
export ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
# for https, you can add the -k flag to all curl commands to skip certificate verification
export AUTH_RESPONSE=$(curl -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -d "{\"userKey\":\"${ADMIN_USER}\",\"password\":\"${ADMIN_PASSWORD}\"}" "$NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/login?tokenType=bearer")
export TOKEN=$(echo $AUTH_RESPONSE | sed -nE 's/.*"token" : "(.*)" }/\1/p')

Create Group

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to create additional groups within nevisAdmin 4:

export GROUP_KEY=admins
export GROUP_DESCRIPTION='Group of administrators'
export LDAP_DNS='[ "ou=Admins,o=Siven,c=ch" ]'
export GROUP_DATA="{\"groupKey\":\"${GROUP_KEY}\",\"description\":\"${GROUP_DESCRIPTION}\",\"ldapDNs\": ${LDAP_DNS} }"
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request POST --data "$GROUP_DATA" $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/groups

Update Group

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to update groups within nevisAdmin 4:

export GROUP_KEY=admins
export GROUP_DESCRIPTION='Group of administrators updated'
export LDAP_DNS='[ "ou=Admins,o=Siven,c=ch" ]'
export GROUP_DATA="{\"groupKey\":\"${GROUP_KEY}\",\"description\":\"${GROUP_DESCRIPTION}\",\"ldapDNs\": ${LDAP_DNS} }"
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request PUT --data "$GROUP_DATA" $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/groups/$GROUP_KEY

Add User to Group

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to add users to groups within nevisAdmin 4:

export GROUP_KEY=admins
export USER_KEY=john
export ADD_USER_DATA="{\"userKey\":\"${USER_KEY}\" }"
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request POST --data "$ADD_USER_DATA" $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/groups/$GROUP_KEY/users

Delete User From Group

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to delete users from groups within nevisAdmin 4:

export GROUP_KEY=admins
export USER_KEY=john
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request DELETE $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/groups/$GROUP_KEY/users/$USER_KEY

Delete Group

Once the preparation explained above is done, execute the following steps to delete groups within nevisAdmin 4:

export GROUP_KEY=admins
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --request DELETE $NEVISADMIN_URL/nevisadmin/api/v1/groups/$GROUP_KEY