---
title: "UserChangePassword changes the password of a specified user."
method: POST
path: "/v3/auth/user/changepw"
tags: ["Auth"]
---

# UserChangePassword changes the password of a specified user.

`POST /v3/auth/user/changepw`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://etcd.io` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://etcd.io/v3/auth/user/changepw`
- Auth: API key in header `Authorization`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/etcd/apis/api-etcdserverpb-rpc-proto/docs/v3/auth/user/changepw/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

## Request body

- EtcdserverpbAuthUserChangePasswordRequest
  - `hashedPassword` string: hashedPassword is the new password for the user. Note that this field will be initialized in the API layer.
  - `name` string: name is the name of the user whose password is being changed.
  - `password` string: password is the new password for the user. Note that this field will be removed in the API layer.

## Response `200`

A successful response.

- EtcdserverpbAuthUserChangePasswordResponse
  - `header` EtcdserverpbResponseHeader
    - `cluster_id` string, uint64: cluster_id is the ID of the cluster which sent the response.
    - `member_id` string, uint64: member_id is the ID of the member which sent the response.
    - `raft_term` string, uint64: raft_term is the raft term when the request was applied.
    - `revision` string, int64: revision is the key-value store revision when the request was applied. For watch progress responses, the header.revision indicates progress. All future events recieved in this stream are guaranteed to have a higher revision number than the header.revision number.

## Other responses

- `default`: An unexpected error response

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/etcd/apis/api-etcdserverpb-rpc-proto.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/etcd/apis/api-etcdserverpb-rpc-proto/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/etcd/apis/api-etcdserverpb-rpc-proto/revisions/79259377f328?raw)