Changing the Password of a Database User

This API is used to change the password of a database user

This operation cannot be performed on frozen or abnormal instances.

URI format
PUT https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/reset-password

**Table 1** Path parameters
Name	Type	IN	Mandatory	Description
project_id	string	path	Yes	Project ID of a tenant in a region. To obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.
instance_id	string	path	Yes	Instance ID, which can be obtained by calling the API described in Querying Instances and Details. If you do not have an instance, call the API described in Creating a DB Instance to create one.

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

**Table 3** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
user_name	String	No	The database username. The default value is rwuser. Users sharduser and csuser are also supported. The value must be 1 to 64 characters in length and can contain only letters (from A to Z or from a to z), digits (from 0 to 9), hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.).
user_pwd	String	Yes	The database password. The value must be 8 to 32 characters in length and contain uppercase letters (A to Z), lowercase letters (a to z), digits (0 to 9), and special characters, such as ~!@#%^*-_=+?()$ Enter a strong password to improve security, preventing security risks such as brute force cracking.
db_name	String	No	The database name. The default value is "admin".

Request example

{
"user_name": "rwuser",
"user_pwd": "******"
}

For details, see Status Code.

For details, see Error Code.

Parent topic: Managing Databases and Users

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