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Response:
200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml
...
<User name="user@example.com" type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml"
<Link rel="edit" type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml"
<Link rel="remove" href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/user/85"/>
<FullName>Example User Full Name</FullName>
<EmailAddress>user@example.com</EmailAddress>
<Role type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.role+xml"
<IsEnabled>false</IsEnabled>
</User>
Remove a User
Before you can remove a user, you must disable the User object by changing the value of its IsEnabled
element to false, as shown in Example
where rel="remove". An administrator can use this link remove the user from the organization, as shown in
Example
6‐28.
Example 6-28. Remove a User
Request:
DELETE http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/user/85
Response:
204 No Content
Group Administration
Groups must be imported from LDAP. You cannot use the vCloud API to add or remove group members, or
change the name of the group. Instead, you must make the changes in the source LDAP database and then
import the group again.
Import a Group
To import a group from an LDAP directory service, POST an empty Group body to the organization's add URL
for groups. The value of the name attribute in the request body must match the value of the group's name
attribute in LDAP.
Example 6-29. Import a Group from LDAP
Request:
POST http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/org/26/groups
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.group+xml
<Group name="Engineering" xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1">
<Role type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.role+xml" name="vApp Wrangler"
</Group>
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href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/user/85" ...>
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/user/85"/>
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/role/105"/>
6‐27. After it has been disabled, the User element contains a link
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/role/102"/>
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