Assign a role¶

POST/admins/{adminId}/role-assignments

Common API · tenant-access

Assign a role of principal type "user" to a tenant admin. Any existing assignment is overridden.

Required permissionassignment:create

Parameters¶

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
`X-Tenant-ID`	header	string (uuid)	Yes	Tenant ID.
`adminId`	path	string (uuid)	Yes	Admin ID.

Request body¶

Content type: application/json

Request body fields

roleIdstring (uuid)required

Role UUID.

Request samples¶

cURLPythonPowerShellGoJavaScript

curl -X POST "https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/common/v1/admins/<adminId>/role-assignments" -H "Authorization: Bearer <access-token>" -H "X-Tenant-ID: <tenant-id>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{
  \"roleId\": \"c83c9481-f63c-4eb8-8793-e81eb9d66ef4\"
}"

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/common/v1/admins/<adminId>/role-assignments",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer <access-token>",
        "X-Tenant-ID": "<tenant-id>",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={'roleId': 'c83c9481-f63c-4eb8-8793-e81eb9d66ef4'},
)
print(response.json())

$headers = @{
    "Authorization" = "Bearer <access-token>"
    "X-Tenant-ID" = "<tenant-id>"
    "Content-Type" = "application/json"
}
$body = '{
  "roleId": "c83c9481-f63c-4eb8-8793-e81eb9d66ef4"
}'
Invoke-RestMethod -Method POST -Uri "https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/common/v1/admins/<adminId>/role-assignments" -Headers $headers -Body $body -ContentType "application/json"

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/common/v1/admins/<adminId>/role-assignments", strings.NewReader(`{
  "roleId": "c83c9481-f63c-4eb8-8793-e81eb9d66ef4"
}`))
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer <access-token>")
    req.Header.Set("X-Tenant-ID", "<tenant-id>")
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

    resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

const response = await fetch("https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/common/v1/admins/<adminId>/role-assignments", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <access-token>",
    "X-Tenant-ID": "<tenant-id>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "roleId": "c83c9481-f63c-4eb8-8793-e81eb9d66ef4"
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Responses¶

`201` — Requested assignment created.¶

Response fields

idstring (uuid)required

Role assignment ID.

roleIdstring (uuid)required

Role UUID.

Errors¶

Status	Meaning
`404`	Can't find admin or role.
`500`	Internal server error.

All error responses share the same shape — see the error response object.

Response examples¶

`201`¶

{
  "id": "4bcb8ee6-720b-40c7-b748-716a3c47c185",
  "roleId": "c83c9481-f63c-4eb8-8793-e81eb9d66ef4"
}