# Regarding Accessing th User profile directly from Auth0 User DB

**URL:** <https://community.auth0.com/t/regarding-accessing-th-user-profile-directly-from-auth0-user-db/190445>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** user-search, user-management\
**Created:** [August 11, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/regarding-accessing-th-user-profile-directly-from-auth0-user-db/190445 "2025-08-11T14:47:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![zhouken75034](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/zhouken75034/32/70833_2.png) [@zhouken75034](https://community.auth0.com/u/zhouken75034)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/regarding-accessing-th-user-profile-directly-from-auth0-user-db/190445/1 "2025-08-11T14:47:33Z")

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Hi Team,  
We have a use case where we need to directly access and query user details from the Auth0 user database from an application . Is it possible like we can access the ldap directory system. What type of database Auth0 uses.

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**Author:** ![gerald.czifra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/gerald.czifra/32/75301_2.png) [@gerald.czifra](https://community.auth0.com/u/gerald.czifra)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/regarding-accessing-th-user-profile-directly-from-auth0-user-db/190445/3 "2025-08-11T19:02:32Z")

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Hi @zhouken75034

Welcome to the Auth0 Community!

Reading through your use-case, I believe that you can achieve reading user details with the Management API tool provided by Auth0, that can be used to [Get a User](https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2/users/get-users-by-id) or [Get a List of users](https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2/users/get-users).

The way you can implement this would be to create a [M2M application](https://auth0.com/docs/get-started/auth0-overview/create-applications/machine-to-machine-apps), then [authorize it](https://auth0.com/docs/manage-users/organizations/organizations-for-m2m-applications/authorize-m2m-access) to access the Management API and use it to call the API. You will need to apply specific scopes for your use-case, such as `read:users`.

One limiting factor that you need to be mindful of would be the rate limits applied to the API → you can read more about this in our following [documentation](https://auth0.com/docs/troubleshoot/customer-support/operational-policies/rate-limit-policy).

The Auth0 database does not function the same way as an LDAP server and I believe that the specifics of how it is constructed are not publicly available, the Management API being the Auth0-provided way of accessing and changing data.

Hope this helped!  
Gerald

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**Author:** ![zhouken75034](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/zhouken75034/32/70833_2.png) [@zhouken75034](https://community.auth0.com/u/zhouken75034)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/regarding-accessing-th-user-profile-directly-from-auth0-user-db/190445/4 "2025-08-12T02:32:23Z")

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Thank you @gerald.czifra . This helps and clarifies .

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/original/3X/b/5/b560f266932fcce5d57f09a6595bd50518cae3f3.jpeg) [@system](https://community.auth0.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/regarding-accessing-th-user-profile-directly-from-auth0-user-db/190445/5 "2025-08-26T02:33:09Z")

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