I’m using the admin API in Java. When trying to create a user providing a login, firstName, lastName and password. I get BAD REQUEST error 400. I have configured the keycloak container with DEBUG logging and can see the authentication to the server with the realm-management clientId is successful. Any ideas on what might be missing?

Thanks, I tried using admin-cli and could also authenticate but then BAD REQUEST again with nothing in the logs. loglevel =TRACE it is.

maybe you could provide more information about the command you are executing. Also take a look in the returning headers, sometimes these also contain more information.

So eventually the solution was: Create a new user that will be the admin user lets called user-admin Assign user-admin roles from the realm-management client. The calls needed to use the admin-cli clientId with the user-admin username and password. Interesting that using realm-managment clientId and clientSecret didn’t work.

Admin API Status 400 Bad Requiest

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zonaut August 25, 2020, 7:03am 2

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