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Activate user profile API

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Activate user profile API

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The user profile feature is designed only for use by Kibana and Elastic’s Observability, Enterprise Search, and Elastic Security solutions. Individual users and external applications should not call this API directly. Elastic reserves the right to change or remove this feature in future releases without prior notice.

Creates or updates a user profile on behalf of another user.

Request

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POST /_security/profile/_activate

Prerequisites

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  • To use this API, you must have the manage_user_profile cluster privilege.

Description

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The activate user profile API creates or updates a profile document for end users with information that is extracted from the user’s authentication object, including username, full_name, roles, and the authentication realm. For example, in the JWT access_token case, the profile user’s username is extracted from the JWT token claim pointed to by the claims.principal setting of the JWT realm that authenticated the token.

When updating a profile document, the API enables the document if it was disabled. Any updates do not change existing content for either the labels or data fields.

This API is intended only for use by applications (such as Kibana) that need to create or update profiles for end users.

The calling application must have either an access_token, or a combination of username and password for the user that the profile document is intended for.

Request body

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access_token
(Required*, string) The user’s Elasticsearch access token, or JWT. Both access and id JWT token types are supported, and they depend on the underlying JWT realm configuration. If you specify the access_token grant type, this parameter is required. It is not valid with other grant types.
client_authentication

(Optional, object) When using the access_token grant type, and when supplying a JWT, this specifies the client authentication for JWTs that need it (i.e. what’s normally specified by the ES-Client-Authentication request header).

scheme
(Required, string) The scheme (case-sensitive) as it’s supplied in the ES-Client-Authentication request header. Currently, the only supported value is SharedSecret.
value
(Required, string) The value that follows the scheme for the client credentials as it’s supplied in the ES-Client-Authentication request header. For example, if the request header would be ES-Client-Authentication: SharedSecret myShar3dS3cret if the client were to authenticate directly with a JWT, then value here should be myShar3dS3cret.
grant_type

(Required, string) The type of grant.

Valid values for grant_type
access_token
In this type of grant, you must supply either an access token, that was created by the Elasticsearch token service (see Get token and Encrypt HTTP client communications for Elasticsearch), or a JWT (either a JWT access_token or a JWT id_token).
password
In this type of grant, you must supply the username and password for the user that you want to create the API key for.
password
(Required*, string) The user’s password. If you specify the password grant type, this parameter is required. It is not valid with other grant types.
username
(Required*, string) The username that identifies the user. If you specify the password grant type, this parameter is required. It is not valid with other grant types.

*Indicates that the setting is required in some, but not all situations.

Response body

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A successful activate user profile API call returns a JSON structure that contains the profile unique ID, user information, timestamp for the operation and version control numbers.

Examples

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POST /_security/profile/_activate
{
  "grant_type": "password",
  "username" : "jacknich",
  "password" : "l0ng-r4nd0m-p@ssw0rd"
}

The API returns the following response:

{
  "uid": "u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0",
  "enabled": true,
  "last_synchronized": 1642650651037,
  "user": {
    "username": "jacknich",
    "roles": [
      "admin", "other_role1"
    ],
    "realm_name": "native",
    "full_name": "Jack Nicholson",
    "email": "jacknich@example.com"
  },
  "labels": {},
  "data": {},
  "_doc": {
    "_primary_term": 88,
    "_seq_no": 66
  }
}
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