Changing the Login Password of an IAM User

Function

This API is used to change the login password of an IAM user.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the following required identity policy-based permissions. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
iam:users:changePasswordV5	Write	user *	g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>	-	-

URI

POST /v5/caller-password

Request Parameters

**Table 1** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
new_password	Yes	String	New password of an IAM user.
old_password	Yes	String	Old password of an IAM user.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Successful

Status code: 400

**Table 2** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code.
error_msg	String	Error message.

Status code: 403

**Table 3** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code.
error_msg	String	Error message.
request_id	String	Request ID.
encoded_authorization_message	String	Encrypted authentication failure information, which can be decrypted using the STS5 decryption API.

Status code: 404

**Table 4** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code.
error_msg	String	Error message.
request_id	String	Request ID.

Example Requests

Changing the login password of an IAM user. The old password is Password1, and the new password is Password2.

POST https://{endpoint}/v5/caller-password

{
  "new_password" : "Password2",
  "old_password" : "Password1"
}

Example Responses

None

Status Codes

Status Code	Description
200	Successful
400	Bad request
403	Forbidden
404	Not found

Error Codes

See Error Codes.

Parent topic: Managing Credentials

Previous topic: Creating a Permanent Access Key

Next topic: Querying the Login Information of an IAM User

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