Add a user to a client role

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I am trying to add a user to a client role from the admin console. I am using Keycloak v. 20.0.2.

I created a client role

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When I go to Users in Role I see:

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I assume this is the screen I want to see populated.

But I could only add realm roles to a user. How do I add users to this client role?

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You don’t add users to role, but you assign role to user or group.
Navigate to users menu, select user, edit it and go to Role mappings tab. Then select client and choose roles you want to add to the user.
You can also create a group, ad multiple users to the group and assign roles to that group.

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This was helpful. TY

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Hi Jason
I am also using the same version of the keycloak but I cant see the options .
The client role that i create is not present here.

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Switch the filter from “realm roles” to “client roles”…

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How to assign client roles to a user via API?
I can’t find anything useful on the documentation.

I’d like to add this clientMapping to a user via API:

"clientMappings": {
        "realm-management": {
            "id": "a84c3990-d7bc-41ac-902e-fb6b9fa1d816",
            "client": "realm-management",
            "mappings": [
                {
                    "id": "ebd7e6b2-e6a0-4fdb-9b0b-c3bafbad39da",
                    "name": "manage-users",
                    "description": "${role_manage-users}",
                    "composite": false,
                    "clientRole": true,
                    "containerId": "a84c3990-d7bc-41ac-902e-fb6b9fa1d816"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
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I reply to my own previous message to let everyone with same problem know that the solution is this:

POST /admin/realms/{{realm}}/users/{{user_id}}/role-mappings/clients/{{client_uuid}}

[{
    "id": "ebd7e6b2-e6a0-4fdb-9b0b-c3bafbad39da",
    "name": "manage-users"
}]

client_uuid is the unique identifier of realm-management