Changing a user account password

Important

The platform enforces the following rule for user account passwords:

• 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.

• Password can be changed only for user accounts located in sub-tenants.

To change a user account password

1. 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'
   

2. 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'
   

3. 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.

4. Convert the password object to a JSON text:

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

5. 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,
   ... )
   

6. Check the status code of the response:

   >>> response.status_code
   204
   

   Status code 204 means that the password has been successfully changed.

   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.