element-hq / element-hq/synapse
Dedicated admin API to create new users (and not update existing users)
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This issue has been migrated from [#8165](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8165).
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**Description:**
i have a little application which can create new users on homeservers. it talks to the homeserver through the admin rest api and therefore requires a valid admin user.
now i noticed that those PUT requests are not only creating but also updating existing users.
https://restfulapi.net/rest-put-vs-post/
> POST /device-management/devices : Create a new device
At the moment, only the second part is supported by matrix synapse:
> PUT /device-management/devices/{id} : Update the device information identified by "id"
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst#create-or-modify-account
So i have to check if the user already exists and then create it. Its just a small thing but i would really appreciate it, if there is some kind of:
```
POST /_synapse/admin/v2/users/
```
with a body like:
```
{user: "someNewUser", password: "someNewPassword"}
```
which returns an Error when the user which should be created already exists.
I guess that is very common in the web that an exception is thrown when a user already exists instead of (accidentally) updating the password... thats what happened to my little project. Lucky me it is only in testing yet :)
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