diff --git a/apps/provisioning_api/lib/Controller/AUserData.php b/apps/provisioning_api/lib/Controller/AUserData.php
index 82ca98ced8..6c4967a6c3 100644
--- a/apps/provisioning_api/lib/Controller/AUserData.php
+++ b/apps/provisioning_api/lib/Controller/AUserData.php
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ abstract class AUserData extends OCSController {
 		// Should be at least Admin Or SubAdmin!
 		if( $this->groupManager->isAdmin($currentLoggedInUser->getUID())
 			|| $this->groupManager->getSubAdmin()->isUserAccessible($currentLoggedInUser, $targetUserObject)) {
-				$data['enabled'] = $this->config->getUserValue($targetUserObject->getUID(), 'core', 'enabled', 'true');
+				$data['enabled'] = $this->config->getUserValue($targetUserObject->getUID(), 'core', 'enabled', 'true') === 'true';
 		} else {
 			// Check they are looking up themselves
 			if($currentLoggedInUser->getUID() !== $targetUserObject->getUID()) {
diff --git a/apps/provisioning_api/tests/Controller/UsersControllerTest.php b/apps/provisioning_api/tests/Controller/UsersControllerTest.php
index 6959f16f5c..7625218e7e 100644
--- a/apps/provisioning_api/tests/Controller/UsersControllerTest.php
+++ b/apps/provisioning_api/tests/Controller/UsersControllerTest.php
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ class UsersControllerTest extends TestCase {
 
 		$expected = [
 			'id' => 'UID',
-			'enabled' => 'true',
+			'enabled' => true,
 			'storageLocation' => '/var/www/newtcloud/data/UID',
 			'lastLogin' => 1521191471000,
 			'backend' => 'Database',
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ class UsersControllerTest extends TestCase {
 
 		$expected = [
 			'id' => 'UID',
-			'enabled' => 'true',
+			'enabled' => true,
 			'storageLocation' => '/var/www/newtcloud/data/UID',
 			'lastLogin' => 1521191471000,
 			'backend' => 'Database',
diff --git a/build/integration/features/bootstrap/Provisioning.php b/build/integration/features/bootstrap/Provisioning.php
index 2543777faa..0bc99cc561 100644
--- a/build/integration/features/bootstrap/Provisioning.php
+++ b/build/integration/features/bootstrap/Provisioning.php
@@ -694,7 +694,8 @@ trait Provisioning {
 		];
 
 		$this->response = $client->get($fullUrl, $options);
-		PHPUnit_Framework_Assert::assertEquals("false", simplexml_load_string($this->response->getBody())->data[0]->enabled);
+		// false in xml is empty
+		PHPUnit_Framework_Assert::assertTrue(empty(simplexml_load_string($this->response->getBody())->data[0]->enabled));
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -713,7 +714,8 @@ trait Provisioning {
 		];
 
 		$this->response = $client->get($fullUrl, $options);
-		PHPUnit_Framework_Assert::assertEquals("true", simplexml_load_string($this->response->getBody())->data[0]->enabled);
+		// boolean to string is integer
+		PHPUnit_Framework_Assert::assertEquals("1", simplexml_load_string($this->response->getBody())->data[0]->enabled);
 	}
 
 	/**