# EnableOrganizationAdminAccount
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Designates an AWS account within the organization as your GuardDuty delegated administrator. Only the organization's management account can run this API operation.

## Request Syntax
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```
POST /admin/enable HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "adminAccountId": "string"
}
```

## URI Request Parameters
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The request does not use any URI parameters.

## Request Body
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The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [adminAccountId](#API_EnableOrganizationAdminAccount_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="guardduty-EnableOrganizationAdminAccount-request-adminAccountId"></a>
The AWS account ID for the organization account to be enabled as a GuardDuty delegated administrator.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

## Response Syntax
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```
HTTP/1.1 200
```

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** BadRequestException **   
A bad request exception object.    
 ** Message **   
The error message.  
 ** Type **   
The error type.
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** InternalServerErrorException **   
An internal server error exception object.    
 ** Message **   
The error message.  
 ** Type **   
The error type.
HTTP Status Code: 500

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/guardduty-2017-11-28/EnableOrganizationAdminAccount)