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title: Manually migrating users to PingOne
description: If you have configured an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) gateway, you can use the PingOne API to programmatically provision users from the external LDAP directory.
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page_id: pingone:integrations:p1_manually_migrate_users
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_manually_migrate_users.html
revdate: May 23, 2024
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  about-this-task: About this task
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# Manually migrating users to PingOne

If you have configured an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>An open, cross platform protocol used for interacting with directory services.\</p>
\</div>)* gateway, you can use the PingOne API to programmatically provision users from the external LDAP directory.

## About this task

Use the `POST CREATE User Import External Password` method with the relevant external password information.

Learn more in [POST CREATE User Import External Password](https://developer.pingidentity.com/pingone-api/platform/users/users-1/create-user-import-external-password.html) in the PingOne API documentation.