Resetting a Password for a Database Account

Function

This API is used to reset a password for a database account. Before calling this API:

Learn how to authenticate this API.
Obtain the required region and endpoint.

Constraints

This operation cannot be performed when the instance is in any of the following statuses: creating, changing instance specifications, frozen, or abnormal.
This API can be used to reset the password of only one database account at a time.

URI

PUT https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/db-user/password

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Mandatory	Description
project_id	Yes	Project ID of a tenant in a region. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.
instance_id	Yes	Instance ID.

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Parameter description
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	Yes	String	Username of the database. It cannot be system usernames. System users: rdsAdmin, rdsMetric, rdsBackup, and rdsRepl.
password	Yes	String	Password of the database account. Value: The value cannot be empty and contains 8 to 32 characters. It consists of at least three types of the following: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters (~!@#%^-_=+?,). The value cannot be the same as the name* value or the name value in reverse order. Enter a strong password to improve security, preventing security risks such as brute force cracking.

Response Parameters

None

Example Request

Resetting the password for database account root

PUT https://gaussdb-opengauss.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/0483b6b16e954cb88930a360d2c4e663/instances/{instance_id}/db-user/password
{ 
  "name" : "root", 
  "password" : "*******" 
}