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Updated on 2023-11-21 GMT+08:00

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Resetting the Administrator Password of an Instance

Function

This API is used to reset the administrator password of an instance.

Constraints

This API supports the following types of instances:

GeminiDB Cassandra
GeminiDB Mongo
GeminiDB Influx
GeminiDB Redis

This operation cannot be performed on frozen or abnormal instances.

Abnormal instances do not support this operation.

Only the password of user rwuser can be reset.

URI

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

**Table 1** Path parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID of a tenant in a region. To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.
instance_id	Yes	String	Instance ID.

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	User token.

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
password	Yes	String	Database password. The password can include 8 to 32 characters and contain uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and a combination of any two of the following special characters: ~!@#%^-_=+? The password of GeminiDB Redis instances can contain at least two types of the following characters: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters (~!@#$%^&()-_=+?). Enter a strong password against security risks such as brute force cracking.

Response Parameters

Status code: 204

No response parameters

Example Requests

URI example

PUT https://gaussdb-nosql.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/375d8d8fad1f43039e23d3b6c0f60a19/instances/9136fd2a9fcd405ea4674276ce36dae8in06/password