Updated on 2026-10-22 GMT+08:00

Changing the Password of a VPN User

Function

This API is used to change the password of a specified VPN user.

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, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
vpn:p2cVpnUser:updatePassword	write	p2cVpnUser	-	-	-
vpn:p2cVpnUser:updatePassword	write	p2cVpnGateway	g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>	-	-

URI

PUT /v5/{project_id}/p2c-vpn-gateways/vpn-servers/{vpn_server_id}/users/{user_id}/password

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
project_id	String	Yes	Specifies a project ID. You can obtain the project ID by referring to Obtaining the Project ID.
vpn_server_id	String	Yes	Specifies the ID of a VPN server.
user_id	String	Yes	Specifies the ID of a VPN user.

Request

Request parameters

**Table 2** Request parameters
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
old_password	String	Yes	Specifies the old password.
new_password	String	Yes	Specifies a new password for the user. Constraints: The value contains 8 to 32 characters. The value must contain at least two types of the following characters: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters including `~!@#$%^&*()-_=+\\|[{}];:'",<.>/? and spaces. The password cannot be the username or the reverse of the username. The new password must be different from the latest five old passwords.

Example request

PUT  https://{Endpoint}/v5/{project_id}/p2c-vpn-gateways/vpn-servers/{vpn_server_id}/users/{user_id}/password

{
  "old_password": "stringst-old",
  "new_password": "stringst-new"
}

Response

Response parameters
Returned status code 200: successful operation

Table 3 Parameters in the response body

Parameter

Type

Description

request_id

String

Specifies a request ID.

**Table 3** Parameters in the response body
Parameter	Type	Description
request_id	String	Specifies a request ID.

Example response

{
  "request_id": "c63d850876bcddbdfbd11776cce57914"
}

Status Codes

For details, see Status Codes.

Parent topic: User Management