Change passwords API

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Changes the passwords of users in the native realm.

Request

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POST _xpack/security/user/_password

POST _xpack/security/user/<username>/_password

Description

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You can use the create user API to update everything but a user’s username and password. This API changes a user’s password.

For more information about the native realm, see Realms and Configuring a native realm.

Path Parameters

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username
(string) The user whose password you want to change. If you do not specify this parameter, the password is changed for the current user.

Request Body

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password (required)
(string) The new password value.

Authorization

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Every user can change their own password. Users with the manage_security privilege can change passwords of other users.

Examples

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The following example updates the password for the jacknich user:

POST /_xpack/security/user/jacknich/_password
{
  "password" : "s3cr3t"
}

A successful call returns an empty JSON structure.

{}