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How to add LDAP users to Hue via API call

sheshk11 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:02:34 GMT

Hi All,

We have Hue (version 4.2.0) in our prod environment and it is coupled with our LDAP. We manually onboard new users by going to "Manage Users" -> "Add/Sync Manage Users". Here, we add the LDAP ID and later when the user gets added. Once the user is added, we again search the newly added LDAP user, click on that and go to "Profiles and Group". Here, we select "temporary-access" so that User can able to access the UI. Without Temporary-access selection, user will not be able to see the UI.

We want to get this automated by writing a Py program and we are looking for the right REST API for adding users to Hue and give him/her "temp-access" in profiles and group. The following link wasn't helpful - http://cloudera.github.io/hue/latest/developer/api/

Please assist us. I would highly appreciate any form of assistance or help.

Regards,

Shesh Kumar

Re: How to add LDAP users to Hue via API call

GangWar — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:04:32 GMT

Hello @sheshk11 I don’t think there is any REST API however Hue commands is another way by which you can achieve this.

The steps will be something like:

Configure LDAP via Hue Service
Restart Hue Server.
Login to Hue server and Perform synch ldap users via command line

<hue root>/build/env/bin/hue sync_ldap_users_and_groups

There are few resources available around this if that helps.

https://github.com/cloudera/hue/blob/master/tools/ops/hue_sync_ldap_groups_cron.sh
https://gethue.com/making-hadoop-accessible-to-your-employees-with-ldap/#t9
https://gethue.com/hadoop-tutorial-how-to-integrate-unix-users-and-groups/

Re: How to add LDAP users to Hue via API call

sheshk11 — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 05:44:27 GMT

@GangWar Thank you!

Re: How to add LDAP users to Hue via API call

girishchalke — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 08:46:44 GMT

Hi,

when i enabled this feature, hue is able to import all users from the LDAP group however

sync_ldap_users_and_groups

is trying to create same user again and its failing with duplicate key error. see my question at

https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/hue-ldap-sync-duplicate-error/m-p/320951/highlight/true#M228224