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Changing a User Password

Function

This API is used to change user passwords.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, no identity policy-based permission required for calling this API.

URI

POST /v1/csms/users/change-password

Request Parameters

Table 1 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

User token. It can be obtained by calling the IAM API. The token is the value of X-Subject-Token in the response header.
Table 2 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

password

Yes

String

New password.

old_password

Yes

String

Old password.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 3 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

user_id

String

User ID.

Status code: 400

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error details.

Example Requests

Change the user password. The new password is huawei@321, and the old password is huawei@123.

{
  "password" : "12345678",
  "old_password" : "234567"
}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Request succeeded.

{
  "user_id" : "20210621095935811-5E16-6B3060..."
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Request succeeded.

400

Request failed.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.

Parent Topic: User Management