I'm moving this discussion to keycloak-user, the appropriate place to ask these questions. This should work: #!/bin/bash REALM="master" export TKN=$(curl -v -X POST "http://localhost:8080/auth/realms/$REALM/protocol/openid-connect/token" \ -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \ -d "username=admin" \ -d 'password=admin' \ -d 'grant_type=password' \ -d 'client_id=admin-cli' | jq -r '.access_token') curl -v -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TKN" -d "(a)/path/of/your/realm/testrealm.json" http://localhost:8080/auth/admin/realms On 2017-10-11, Kishan Sagathiya wrote: -- abstractj