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Change Password

    A local user of Operational Insights can change their password.

    HTTP Method and URI

    POST /controller/changePassword

    Description

    Changes the current, locally defined user-password to a new user-password.

    Curl Syntax

    curl -X POST http://<ip-address-or-domain-name>:8091/controller/changePassword
  -u <username>:<password>
  -d <new-password>

    The specified new-password must be for a locally defined user, and must conform to the currently established password policy for the cluster. For instructions on changing the current password policy, see Set Password Policy. For information about local and external domains, see Authentication.

    Responses

    Success returns 200 OK. Failure to authenticate returns 401 Unauthorized. A malformed URI returns 404 Object Not Found.

    Examples

    The following example changes the locally defined password of user localUser from localUserPassword to localUserNewPassword:

    curl -v -X POST http://localhost:8091/controller/changePassword \
-u localUser:localUserPassword \
-d password=localUserNewPassword

    See Also

    For instructions on changing the current password policy, see Set Password Policy. For information about local and external domains, see Authentication.