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    Owner administration or the explicitly assigned business permission is…
    Reference for the POST /api/v1/security/unlock endpoint in the PharmaFlow
    API.
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title: POST /unlock
type: openapi-operation
---
Owner administration or the explicitly assigned business permission is required. Actions are scoped to the signed-in branch. A request cannot be approved by its creator. Locked sessions return 423.

`POST /api/v1/security/unlock`

**Request body** (`application/json`, required)

- `email` (string<email>, required)
- `pin` (string, required)

Request body example:

```json
{
  "email": "user@example.com",
  "pin": "string"
}
```

**Responses**

- `200` — Operation completed
- `201` — Record created
- `400` — Invalid request
- `401` — Session expired or revoked
- `403` — Permission denied or self-approval
- `409` — Record changed or no longer actionable
- `423` — Register locked