The import users operation gives privileged applications the ability to create a new user and set the user’s password. The password attribute in this operation uses the same format for specifying passwords as the set password request, allowing both cleartext and pre-encoded password values. This endpoint requires the Identity Data Admin role.

The POST /environments/{environmentId}/users operation imports a new user resource to the specified environment. This operation uses the application/vnd.pingidentity.user.import+json custom content type in the request header.

New users must be assigned to a population resource identified by its ID, and the request must set a value for the username attribute. In addition, this operation supports the password attribute, which can accept a pre-encoded password value and a forceChange value of false.

username must be unique to an environment (spanning populations). Access to populations is determined by roles. It’s possible that username conflicts may arise, if you or your worker application attempt to create a user that exists in a population to which you have no access.

If successful, the response returns a 201 Successfully created message and shows the new user resource’s property data.

Note: Pre-encoded passwords are specified by the name of the encoding scheme followed by an encoded representation of the password (as shown in the example). Supported encoding schemes are bcrypt, PBKDF2, scrypt, salted SHA1, salted SHA256, salted SHA384, and salted SHA512.

For more information about pre-encoded passwords, see Set password. For import operations, if a pre-encoded password is not accepted by PingOne, then it does not conform to the supported encoding schemes described in the Set password topic.