Change passwords APIedit
Changes the passwords of users in the native realm and built-in users.
Prerequisitesedit
-
Every user can change their own password. Users with the
manage_security
privilege can change passwords of other users.
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 Native user authentication.
Path parametersedit
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username
- (Optional, 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
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password
- (Required, string) The new password value.
Examplesedit
The following example updates the password for the jacknich
user:
POST /_security/user/jacknich/_password { "password" : "s3cr3t" }
A successful call returns an empty JSON structure.
{}