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Ambari API calls for creating Ambari Local Users, Groups and mapping a user to a group.

October 5, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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1. Create User

[root@chupa1 ~]# curl -iv -u admin:admin -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X POST -d '{"Users/user_name":"dav","Users/password":"pass","Users/active":"true","Users/admin":"false"}' http://localhost:8080/api/v1/users * About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0) * Trying ::1... connected * Connected to localhost (::1) port 8080 (#0) * Server auth using Basic with user 'admin' > POST /api/v1/users HTTP/1.1 > Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4= > User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.16.1 Basic ECC zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2 > Host: localhost:8080 > Accept: */* > X-Requested-By: ambari > Content-Length: 93 > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded > < HTTP/1.1 201 Created HTTP/1.1 201 Created

2. Create Group

[root@chupa1 ~]# curl -iv -u admin:admin -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X POST -d '{"Groups/group_name":"davgroup"}' http://localhost:8080/api/v1/groups * About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0) * Trying ::1... connected * Connected to localhost (::1) port 8080 (#0) * Server auth using Basic with user 'admin' > POST /api/v1/groups HTTP/1.1 > Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4= > User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.16.1 Basic ECC zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2 > Host: localhost:8080 > Accept: */* > X-Requested-By: ambari > Content-Length: 32 > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded > < HTTP/1.1 201 Created HTTP/1.1 201 Created

3. Map user to Group

[root@chupa1 ~]# curl -iv -u admin:admin -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X POST -d '{"MemberInfo/user_name":"dav", "MemberInfo/group_name":"davgroup"}' http://localhost:8080/api/v1/groups/davgroup/members * About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0) * Trying ::1... connected * Connected to localhost (::1) port 8080 (#0) * Server auth using Basic with user 'admin' > POST /api/v1/groups/davgroup/members HTTP/1.1 > Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4= > User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.16.1 Basic ECC zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2 > Host: localhost:8080 > Accept: */* > X-Requested-By: ambari > Content-Length: 66 > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded > < HTTP/1.1 201 Created HTTP/1.1 201 Created