Create Users and assign Channels using the Admin API

Mobile Sync Gateway
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I need to be able to create users and manage their Channels via my Applications Admin API.

I have already create my Admin Credentials but I cannot grok how to use this to connect to the Admin API, I feel like I am missing something in the documentation that should be fairly simple.

Anyone have any guidance as how to connect to the Admin API and create a User?

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It’s expected that your backend service/API has network access to Sync Gateway’s Admin API port (4985), and can use the set of admin credentials you created to manage users via the Admin HTTP REST API:

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Hi,
I have read over that several times, it is not clear, or at least not clear to me.

I have my credentials, but what endpoint to do I call to authenticate?

Is it basic auth?

What is the response?

Do I get a token I then use for all of my subsequent requests?

I apologize, the documentation is not clear, or clear to me at least.

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Ah ok! Yes you’ll need to authenticate each request with HTTP basic auth headers

We don’t have anything like session cookies for the admin API - only the public API supports cookies/OIDC/etc.

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Thank you, so I was heading in the right direction - I got it sorted out:

I was working off this documentation for authentication:
https://docs.couchbase.com/sync-gateway/current/rest_api_admin.html#tag/Authentication/operation/get_db-_oidc

And here for users:
https://docs.couchbase.com/sync-gateway/current/rest_api_admin.html#tag/Database-Security/operation/get_db-_user-

It was not clear in the docs, or I missed it, that you need to use Basic Auth for all requests and so I assumed I needed to call an Auth Endpoint and get some token back to use for subsequent requests.

Basic Auth makes it nice and simple, thanks for the help!

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