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> Learn how to create a role using the Auth0 Dashboard or the Management API.

# Create Roles

You can create [roles](/docs/manage-users/access-control/rbac) using Auth0's Dashboard or the <Tooltip tip="Management API: A product to allow customers to perform administrative tasks." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=Management+API">Management API</Tooltip>. The roles can be used with the API Authorization Core feature set.

## Prerequisites

* For role-based access control (RBAC) to work properly, you must enable it for your API using either the Dashboard or the Management API. The Authorization Core functionality is different from the Authorization Extension. For a comparison, read [Authorization Core vs. Authorization Extension](/docs/manage-users/access-control/authorization-core-vs-authorization-extension).
* [Set up an API](/docs/get-started/auth0-overview/set-up-apis) in the <Tooltip tip="Auth0 Dashboard: Auth0's main product to configure your services." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=Auth0+Dashboard">Auth0 Dashboard</Tooltip>.
* Permissions are selected from predefined values. If your list of permissions is blank, you need to [add permissions](/docs/get-started/apis/add-api-permissions) to your API.

## Dashboard

1. Go to [Dashboard > User Management > Roles](https://manage.auth0.com/#/roles) and click **Create Role**.
2. Name the role and add a description, then click **Create**.

## Management API

Make a `POST` call to the [Create Role endpoint](https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2#!/Roles/post_roles). Be sure to replace `MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN`, `ROLE_NAME`, and `ROLE_DESC` placeholder values with your Management API <Tooltip tip="Access Token: Authorization credential, in the form of an opaque string or JWT, used to access an API." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=access+token">access token</Tooltip>, role name, and role description, respectively.

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash cURL lines
  curl --request POST \
    --url 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles' \
    --header 'authorization: Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
    --header 'cache-control: no-cache' \
    --header 'content-type: application/json' \
    --data '{ "name": "ROLE_NAME", "description": "ROLE_DESC" }'
  ```

  ```csharp C# lines
  var client = new RestClient("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles");
  var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
  request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/json");
  request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN");
  request.AddHeader("cache-control", "no-cache");
  request.AddParameter("application/json", "{ \"name\": \"ROLE_NAME\", \"description\": \"ROLE_DESC\" }", ParameterType.RequestBody);
  IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
  ```

  ```go Go lines expandable
  package main

  import (
  	"fmt"
  	"strings"
  	"net/http"
  	"io/ioutil"
  )

  func main() {

  	url := "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles"

  	payload := strings.NewReader("{ \"name\": \"ROLE_NAME\", \"description\": \"ROLE_DESC\" }")

  	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

  	req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/json")
  	req.Header.Add("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN")
  	req.Header.Add("cache-control", "no-cache")

  	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  	defer res.Body.Close()
  	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

  	fmt.Println(res)
  	fmt.Println(string(body))

  }
  ```

  ```java Java lines
  HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles")
    .header("content-type", "application/json")
    .header("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN")
    .header("cache-control", "no-cache")
    .body("{ \"name\": \"ROLE_NAME\", \"description\": \"ROLE_DESC\" }")
    .asString();
  ```

  ```javascript Node.JS lines
  var axios = require("axios").default;

  var options = {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles',
    headers: {
      'content-type': 'application/json',
      authorization: 'Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN',
      'cache-control': 'no-cache'
    },
    data: {name: 'ROLE_NAME', description: 'ROLE_DESC'}
  };

  axios.request(options).then(function (response) {
    console.log(response.data);
  }).catch(function (error) {
    console.error(error);
  });
  ```

  ```obj-c Obj-C lines expandable
  #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

  NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"content-type": @"application/json",
                             @"authorization": @"Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN",
                             @"cache-control": @"no-cache" };
  NSDictionary *parameters = @{ @"name": @"ROLE_NAME",
                                @"description": @"ROLE_DESC" };

  NSData *postData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:parameters options:0 error:nil];

  NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles"]
                                                         cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                                     timeoutInterval:10.0];
  [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
  [request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];
  [request setHTTPBody:postData];

  NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
  NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
                                              completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                  if (error) {
                                                      NSLog(@"%@", error);
                                                  } else {
                                                      NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
                                                      NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse);
                                                  }
                                              }];
  [dataTask resume];
  ```

  ```php PHP lines expandable
  $curl = curl_init();

  curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{ \"name\": \"ROLE_NAME\", \"description\": \"ROLE_DESC\" }",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
      "authorization: Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN",
      "cache-control: no-cache",
      "content-type: application/json"
    ],
  ]);

  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  $err = curl_error($curl);

  curl_close($curl);

  if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
  } else {
    echo $response;
  }
  ```

  ```python Python lines
  import http.client

  conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")

  payload = "{ \"name\": \"ROLE_NAME\", \"description\": \"ROLE_DESC\" }"

  headers = {
      'content-type': "application/json",
      'authorization': "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN",
      'cache-control': "no-cache"
      }

  conn.request("POST", "/{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles", payload, headers)

  res = conn.getresponse()
  data = res.read()

  print(data.decode("utf-8"))
  ```

  ```ruby Ruby lines
  require 'uri'
  require 'net/http'
  require 'openssl'

  url = URI("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles")

  http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

  request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
  request["content-type"] = 'application/json'
  request["authorization"] = 'Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'
  request["cache-control"] = 'no-cache'
  request.body = "{ \"name\": \"ROLE_NAME\", \"description\": \"ROLE_DESC\" }"

  response = http.request(request)
  puts response.read_body
  ```

  ```swift Swift lines expandable
  import Foundation

  let headers = [
    "content-type": "application/json",
    "authorization": "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "cache-control": "no-cache"
  ]
  let parameters = [
    "name": "ROLE_NAME",
    "description": "ROLE_DESC"
  ] as [String : Any]

  let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

  let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles")! as URL,
                                          cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                      timeoutInterval: 10.0)
  request.httpMethod = "POST"
  request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
  request.httpBody = postData as Data

  let session = URLSession.shared
  let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
    if (error != nil) {
      print(error)
    } else {
      let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
      print(httpResponse)
    }
  })

  dataTask.resume()
  ```
</CodeGroup>

| **Value**               | **Description**                                                                                                       |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN` | [Access Token for the Management API](https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2/tokens) with the scope `create:roles`. |
| `ROLE_NAME`             | Name of the role you would like to create.                                                                            |
| `ROLE_DESC`             | User-friendly description of the role.                                                                                |

## Learn more

* [Add Permissions to Roles](/docs/manage-users/access-control/configure-core-rbac/roles/add-permissions-to-roles)
* [Remove Permissions from Roles](/docs/manage-users/access-control/configure-core-rbac/roles/remove-permissions-from-roles)
* [Assign Roles to Users](/docs/manage-users/access-control/configure-core-rbac/rbac-users/assign-roles-to-users)
* [Delete Roles](/docs/manage-users/access-control/configure-core-rbac/roles/delete-roles)