# Icinga Director REST API - API users not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Icinga Director\ **Created:** [January 14, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/icinga-director-rest-api-api-users-not-working/3198 "2020-01-14T09:03:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![lukas](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e9a140/32.png) [@lukas](https://community.icinga.com/u/lukas)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/icinga-director-rest-api-api-users-not-working/3198/2 "2020-01-14T11:13:17Z")
Hey Jaber, maybe this can help? Add the user to a role with the needed permissions. Source: > [@Get information via Poweshell and Icinga Director API](https://community.icinga.com/t/get-information-via-poweshell-and-icinga-director-api/3141/8): > > Thanks for your help, that’s what it was. Solution: I created a user under IcingaWeb2 → configuration → authentication → user → "Create new user After that I created a new role under IcingaWeb2 → configuration → authentication → Rollen→ “Create new role” and in the module “director” I added the rights “General Module Access” and “director/\*”. I added the user “user” to the role. This gave me a correctly configured user for working with the Icinga Director API. Then I wrote a script that cr… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.icinga.com/t/icinga-director-rest-api-api-users-not-working/3198)._