Resets the password of a user.
Operation description
If you forget your password or your password expires or is at risk, you must contact a CloudSSO administrator to reset your password.
This topic provides an example on how to reset the password of the user u-00q8wbq42wiltcrk****
. The new password is automatically generated by the system.
Debugging
Authorization information
The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action
policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:
- Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
- Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
- Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level,
All Resources
is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
- Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
- Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
---|---|---|---|---|
cloudsso:ResetUserPassword | Write |
|
| none |
Request parameters
Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
DirectoryId | string | Yes | The ID of the directory. | d-00fc2p61**** |
UserId | string | Yes | The ID of the user. | u-00q8wbq42wiltcrk**** |
Password | string | No | The new password. The password must contain the following types of characters: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters. The password must be 8 to 32 characters in length. Note
If you set GenerateRandomPassword to False , you must specify Password .
| uc)XK$?ictf72CKFDy9vtWaFmISl**** |
GenerateRandomPassword | boolean | No | Specifies whether to enable the system to automatically generate a new password. Valid values:
| True |
RequirePasswordResetForNextLogin | boolean | No | Specifies whether password reset is required upon the next logon. Valid values:
| False |
Response parameters
Examples
Sample success responses
JSON
format
{
"NewPassword": "W2koInFIm0Wy2wVZ$oB)MzD$nY!G****",
"RequestId": "F44F02EC-70D1-5E51-8E8E-FA9AC4EF952A"
}
Error codes
For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.