Users

Directly updating a user password

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To directly update a user password, you will need to reprove the user's intention by supplying the old password alongside the new. If you simply want to initiate an email-based password reset process, see the following endpoint.

put/v1/users/{actorId}/password

Request

  • Base URL
    / (relative, and the document was published on a file host, not at the API’s origin)
  • URL
    /v1/users/{actorId}/password
  • Auth
    none declared

Path parameters

actorIdstring required

The integer ID of the User.

Request body */*

oldstring required

The user's current password.

newstring required

The new password that the user wishes to set.

Example request

{
  "old": "old.password",
  "new": "new.password"
}

Response

OK

successboolean required

Example response

{
  "success": true
}

Changes