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gleung
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12 years ago

Creating new user through REST API

Hi,   I want to use the REST API to create new users so that I anonymous users can register themself from a third party app. I tried using the 'users/add' API however it returns the permission err...
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PaoloT
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi gleung 

 

I think the call is meant to be called by an administrator, to create a new account. It would be quite dangerous to allow an anonymous client to programmatically add new users to a community. 

 

Hope that helps,

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