In this blog post I want briefly show, how I implemented the mapping of a role to a user in Keycloak with CURL in a bash script.

The reason why I came across that topic, it was because I noticed that it wasn’t possible to upload a new user including the role information to the current realm.

I found that helpful stackoverflow entry (Keycloak – using admin API to add client role to user), but this stackoverflow entry didn’t contain the information: How to configure it for a pure realm role? At the end I found the related REST API documentation of Keycloak to extract the information.

Here are the major three steps I did.

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In this blog post I want briefly show, how I implemented the upload of an user to Keycloak with CURL in a bash script.

I came across a helpful blog post (Keycloak REST API: Create a New User), but this blog post didn’t contain the information: How to set the password for the user?

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