Activating by setting the password

Important

The platform enforces the following rule for user account passwords:

The password may contain any unicode and special characters.

Also, the platform enforces the following rules for the /users/{user_id}/password endpoint:

Only API clients can access this endpoint.
The password can only be changed for user accounts located in sub-tenants.

To activate by setting the password

Authenticate to the cloud platform via the Python shell.

The following variables should be available now:

>>> base_url  # the base URL of the API
'<the data center URL>/api/2'
>>> auth  # the 'Authorization' header value with the access token
{'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImMwMD...'}
>>> tenant_id  # the UUID of the tenant to which the token provides access
'ede9f834-70b3-476c-83d9-736f9f8c7dae'

Assign the user_id variable the UUID of a user account created via the API or a user account found via search:
```
>>> user_id = created_user_id
>>> user_id
'1c234e69-5469-424a-a6d1-ff5658b387a6'
```
Define a variable named password, and then assign the new user password to this variable:
```
>>> password = {
...      "password": "newUserPassword312"
... }
```

Name	Value type	Required	Description
`password`	string	Yes	A new password.

Convert the password object to a JSON text:

>>> password = json.dumps(password, indent=4)
>>> print(password)
{
    "password": "newUserPassword312"
}

Send a POST request with the JSON text to the /users/{user_id}/password endpoint:

>>> response = requests.post(
...     f'{base_url}/users/{user_id}/password',
...     headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json', **auth},
...     data=password,
... )

Check the status code of the response:
```
>>> response.status_code
204
```
Status code 204 means that the password has been successfully set.

Note

A different status code means that an error has occurred. For details of the error, see HTTP status response codes and API error codes.