Hi, I created a new user using the REST API. But I am unable to login with the new user credentials. When I search the users table, I cannot find the user account. To troubleshoot the problem, I ran the following CURL cmd. [image] I also tried using a JSON payload with the CURL cmd. I get the…

The message here is somewhat misleading; active:false indicates the user was not created but already existed. Check to ensure there isn’t already a user with the same email address, especially if normalize_emails is enabled.

I realised that there is an error in our API docs. The active param is only permitted when an API key associated to an admin user is used and has been the case since 2016 . For now, I’ve corrected the docs in https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/31578

This will help, yeah. It still doesn’t address the original problem of the message being misleading for admins though. ○ → curl -X POST -H "api-key: $API_KEY" -H 'api-username: michael' https://try.discourse.org/users.json --json "$(jo email=michael+test@contoso.com username=michaeltest password=$…

[imagen] Michael Brown: Check to ensure there isn’t already a user with the same email address, especially if normalize_emails is enabled. You are correct. This was the problem: A user with the same email address already exists. I was searching by username and by created_at desc, which was w…

Crear usuario mediante REST-API, no parece estar funcionando

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) 1 Marzo, 2025 00:08 3

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Crear usuario mediante REST-API, no parece estar funcionando

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