Group service accounts

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Interact with service accounts by using the REST API.

Prerequisites:

You must be an administrator of the self-managed instance, or have the Owner role for the GitLab.com group.

List service account users

Introduced in GitLab 17.1.

Lists all service account users that are provisioned by group.

This function takes pagination parameters page and per_page to restrict the list of users.

GET /groups/:id/service_accounts

Parameters:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the target group.
`order_by`	string	no	Orders list of users by `username` or `id`. Default is `id`.
`sort`	string	no	Specifies sorting by `asc` or `desc`. Default is `desc`.

Example request:

curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/345/service_accounts"

Example response:

[

  {
    "id": 57,
    "username": "service_account_group_345_<random_hash>",
    "name": "Service account user"
  },
  {
    "id": 58,
    "username": "service_account_group_346_<random_hash>",
    "name": "Service account user"
  }
]

Create a service account user

Introduced in GitLab 16.1.

Ability to specify a username or name was introduced in GitLab 16.10.

Creates a service account user.

This API endpoint works on top-level groups only. It does not work on subgroups.

POST /groups/:id/service_accounts

Supported attributes:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the target group.
`name`	string	no	The name of the user. If not specified, the default `Service account user` name is used.
`username`	string	no	The username of the user. If not specified, it's automatically generated.

Example request:

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/345/service_accounts"

Example response:

{
  "id": 57,
  "username": "service_account_group_345_6018816a18e515214e0c34c2b33523fc",
  "name": "Service account user"
}

Delete a service account user

Introduced in GitLab 17.1.

Deletes a service account user.

This API endpoint works on top-level groups only. It does not work on subgroups.

DELETE /groups/:id/service_accounts/:user_id

Parameters:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the target group.
`user_id`	integer	yes	The ID of a service account user.
`hard_delete`	boolean	no	If true, contributions that would usually be moved to a Ghost User are instead deleted, as well as groups owned solely by this service account user.

Example request:

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/345/service_accounts/181"

Create a personal access token for a service account user

Introduced in GitLab 16.1.

This API endpoint works on top-level groups only. It does not work on subgroups.

POST /groups/:id/service_accounts/:user_id/personal_access_tokens

Parameters:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the target group.
`user_id`	integer	yes	The ID of a service account user.
`name`	string	yes	The name of the personal access token.
`scopes`	array	yes	Array of scopes of the personal access token. See personal access token scopes for possible values.
`expires_at`	date	no	The personal access token expiry date. When left blank, the token follows the standard rule of expiry for personal access tokens.

Example request:

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/35/service_accounts/71/personal_access_tokens" --data "scopes[]=api,read_user,read_repository" --data "name=service_accounts_token"

Example response:

{
  "id":6,
  "name":"service_accounts_token",
  "revoked":false,
  "created_at":"2023-06-13T07:47:13.900Z",
  "scopes":["api"],
  "user_id":71,
  "last_used_at":null,
  "active":true,
  "expires_at":"2024-06-12",
  "token":"<token_value>"
}

Rotate a personal access token for a service account user

Introduced in GitLab 16.1.

This API endpoint works on top-level groups only. It does not work on subgroups.

POST /groups/:id/service_accounts/:user_id/personal_access_tokens/:token_id/rotate

Parameters:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the target group.
`user_id`	integer	yes	The ID of the service account user.
`token_id`	integer	yes	The ID of the token.

Example request:

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/35/service_accounts/71/personal_access_tokens/6/rotate"

Example response:

{
  "id":7,
  "name":"service_accounts_token",
  "revoked":false,
  "created_at":"2023-06-13T07:54:49.962Z",
  "scopes":["api"],
  "user_id":71,
  "last_used_at":null,
  "active":true,
  "expires_at":"2023-06-20",
  "token":"<token_value>"
}