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[Bug]: POST /admin/users not using is_admin flag and creating users as non admin by default #1643

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🐞 Bug Summary

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🧩 Affected Component

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  • mcpgateway - API
  • mcpgateway - UI (admin panel)
  • mcpgateway.wrapper - stdio wrapper
  • Federation or Transports
  • CLI, Makefiles, or shell scripts
  • Container setup (Docker/Podman/Compose)
  • Other (explain below)

🔁 Steps to Reproduce

Create a user with POST /admin/users and is_admin as true
It creates the user as non admin

🤔 Expected Behavior

It should have created the user as admin


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Version or commit e.g. v0.9.0 or main@a1b2c3d
Runtime e.g. Python 3.11, Gunicorn
Platform / OS e.g. Ubuntu 22.04, macOS
Container e.g. Docker, Podman, none

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