---
title: "Change Password."
method: PUT
path: "/user/password"
tags: ["signed_in_user"]
---

# Change Password.

`PUT /user/password`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/user/password`
- Auth: HTTP basic

Changes the password for the user.

## Request body

- ChangeUserPasswordCommand
  - `newPassword` string
  - `oldPassword` string

## Response `200`

An OKResponse is returned if the request was successful.

- SuccessResponseBody
  - `message` string

## Other responses

- `400`: BadRequestError is returned when the request is invalid and it cannot be processed.
- `401`: UnauthorizedError is returned when the request is not authenticated.
- `403`: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/grafana/apis/grafana-http-api/revisions/df55ba1718ba?raw)