https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/permission-error-when-trying-add-user-to-group/m-p/1104890#M42439 <P>In my ArcGIS Online organization, we are trying to run this Python script to reassign ownership of groups and items to another user in the organization: <A href="https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000021363" target="_self">Automate ownership reassignment of ArcGIS Online items shared to groups with the Update capability.</A></P><P>I'm running into issue in this segment of the script:</P><LI-CODE lang="python"># 3. Change ownership of the old user groups to a new user. usergroups = olduser.groups for group in usergroups: grp = gis.groups.get(group['id']) if (grp.owner == orig_userid): grp.reassign_to(new_userid) else: grp.add_users(new_userid) grp.remove_users(orig_userid)</LI-CODE><P>Even though I have administrator access, the script fails on this line:</P><LI-CODE lang="python">grp.add_users(new_userid)</LI-CODE><P>The error states:</P><LI-CODE lang="python">Exception: You do not have permissions to access this resource or perform this operation. (Error Code: 403)</LI-CODE><P>Does anyone know why the script is throwing this error? Thanks for any help you can provide!</P><P>Andy</P> Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:59:20 GMT Andy_Siegel 2021-10-05T16:59:20Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/permission-error-when-trying-add-user-to-group/m-p/1104890#M42439 <P>In my ArcGIS Online organization, we are trying to run this Python script to reassign ownership of groups and items to another user in the organization: <A href="https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000021363" target="_self">Automate ownership reassignment of ArcGIS Online items shared to groups with the Update capability.</A></P><P>I'm running into issue in this segment of the script:</P><LI-CODE lang="python"># 3. Change ownership of the old user groups to a new user. usergroups = olduser.groups for group in usergroups: grp = gis.groups.get(group['id']) if (grp.owner == orig_userid): grp.reassign_to(new_userid) else: grp.add_users(new_userid) grp.remove_users(orig_userid)</LI-CODE><P>Even though I have administrator access, the script fails on this line:</P><LI-CODE lang="python">grp.add_users(new_userid)</LI-CODE><P>The error states:</P><LI-CODE lang="python">Exception: You do not have permissions to access this resource or perform this operation. (Error Code: 403)</LI-CODE><P>Does anyone know why the script is throwing this error? Thanks for any help you can provide!</P><P>Andy</P> Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:59:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/permission-error-when-trying-add-user-to-group/m-p/1104890#M42439 Andy_Siegel 2021-10-05T16:59:20Z