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Reset root Password of a Server

Resets the root password. Only works for Linux systems that are running the qemu guest agent. Server must be powered on (status running) in order for this operation to succeed.

This will generate a new password for this Server and return it.

If this does not succeed you can use the rescue system to netboot the Server and manually change your Server password by hand.

post/servers/{id}/actions/reset_password

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1
  • URL: https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1/servers/{id}/actions/reset_password
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Path parameters

idinteger required

ID of the Server.

Example:42

ID of the Server.

Response

Request succeeded.

root_passwordstring

Password that will be set for this Server once the Action succeeds.

Example response

{
  "root_password": "zCWbFhnu950dUTko5f40",
  "action": {
    "id": 42,
    "command": "start_resource",
    "started": "2016-01-30T23:55:00Z",
    "finished": "2016-01-30T23:55:00Z",
    "progress": 100,
    "resources": [
      {
        "id": 42,
        "type": "server"
      }
    ],
    "error": {
      "code": "action_failed",
      "message": "Action failed"
    }
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.