PLT 6125 Allow system admins to create users on closed servers (#5908)

* Update user.go

Added method to create user accounts using a privileged system_admin account

* Update user.go

Added respective method to handle the the APIv4 call to create users with privileged account(system_admin) by passing server restrictions of EnableUserCreation and/or EnableOpenServer set to false.

* Update user_test.go

Added test case

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/app/user.go b/app/user.go
index 850b26f1b..40651f56a 100644
--- a/app/user.go
+++ b/app/user.go
@@ -105,6 +105,19 @@ func CreateUserWithInviteId(user *model.User, inviteId string, siteURL string) (
 	return ruser, nil
 }
 
+func CreateUserAsAdmin(user *model.User, siteURL string) (*model.User, *model.AppError) {
+	ruser, err := CreateUser(user)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	if err := SendWelcomeEmail(ruser.Id, ruser.Email, ruser.EmailVerified, ruser.Locale, siteURL); err != nil {
+		l4g.Error(err.Error())
+	}
+
+	return ruser, nil
+}
+
 func CreateUserFromSignup(user *model.User, siteURL string) (*model.User, *model.AppError) {
 	if err := IsUserSignUpAllowed(); err != nil {
 		return nil, err