Change passwords APIedit
Changes the passwords of users in the native realm.
Descriptionedit
You can use the create user API to update everything
but a user’s username and password. This API changes a user’s password.
For more information about the native realm, see Realms and Configuring a native realm.
Path Parametersedit
-
username - (string) The user whose password you want to change. If you do not specify this parameter, the password is changed for the current user.
Request Bodyedit
-
password(required) - (string) The new password value.
Authorizationedit
Every user can change their own password. Users with the manage_security
privilege can change passwords of other users.
Examplesedit
The following example updates the password for the jacknich user:
POST /_xpack/security/user/jacknich/_password
{
"password" : "s3cr3t"
}A successful call returns an empty JSON structure.
{}