synapse/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst

Create or modify Account

This API allows an administrator to create or modify a user account with a specific user_id.

This api is:

PUT /_synapse/admin/v2/users/<user_id>

with a body of:

{
    "password": "user_password",
    "displayname": "User",
    "avatar_url": "<avatar_url>",
    "admin": false,
    "deactivated": false
}

including an access_token of a server admin.

The parameter displayname is optional and defaults to user_id. The parameter avatar_url is optional. The parameter admin is optional and defaults to 'false'. The parameter deactivated is optional and defaults to 'false'. If the user already exists then optional parameters default to the current value.

List Accounts

This API returns all local user accounts.

The api is:

GET /_synapse/admin/v2/users?from=0&limit=10&guests=false

including an access_token of a server admin. The parameters from and limit are required only for pagination. By default, a limit of 100 is used. The parameter user_id can be used to select only users with user ids that contain this value. The parameter guests=false can be used to exclude guest users, default is to include guest users. The parameter deactivated=true can be used to include deactivated users, default is to exclude deactivated users. If the endpoint does not return a next_token then there are no more users left. It returns a JSON body like the following:

{
    "users": [
        {
            "name": "<user_id1>",
            "password_hash": "<password_hash1>",
            "is_guest": 0,
            "admin": 0,
            "user_type": null,
            "deactivated": 0
        }, {
            "name": "<user_id2>",
            "password_hash": "<password_hash2>",
            "is_guest": 0,
            "admin": 1,
            "user_type": null,
            "deactivated": 0
        }
    ],
    "next_token": "100"
}

Query Account

This API returns information about a specific user account.

The api is:

GET /_synapse/admin/v1/whois/<user_id> (deprecated)
GET /_synapse/admin/v2/users/<user_id>

including an access_token of a server admin.

It returns a JSON body like the following:

{
    "user_id": "<user_id>",
    "devices": {
        "": {
            "sessions": [
                {
                    "connections": [
                        {
                            "ip": "1.2.3.4",
                            "last_seen": 1417222374433,
                            "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 ..."
                        },
                        {
                            "ip": "1.2.3.10",
                            "last_seen": 1417222374500,
                            "user_agent": "Dalvik/2.1.0 ..."
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

last_seen is measured in milliseconds since the Unix epoch.

Deactivate Account

This API deactivates an account. It removes active access tokens, resets the password, and deletes third-party IDs (to prevent the user requesting a password reset). It can also mark the user as GDPR-erased (stopping their data from distributed further, and deleting it entirely if there are no other references to it).

The api is:

POST /_synapse/admin/v1/deactivate/<user_id>

with a body of:

{
    "erase": true
}

including an access_token of a server admin.

The erase parameter is optional and defaults to 'false'. An empty body may be passed for backwards compatibility.

Reset password

Changes the password of another user. This will automatically log the user out of all their devices.

The api is:

POST /_synapse/admin/v1/reset_password/<user_id>

with a body of:

{
    "new_password": "<secret>"
}

including an access_token of a server admin.

Get whether a user is a server administrator or not

The api is:

GET /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/admin

including an access_token of a server admin.

A response body like the following is returned:

{
    "admin": true
}

Change whether a user is a server administrator or not

Note that you cannot demote yourself.

The api is:

PUT /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/admin

with a body of:

{
    "admin": true
}

including an access_token of a server admin.