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Set Identity's Password

POST 
/set-password

This API is used to set a password for an identity.

An identity can change their own password (as well as any of their accounts' passwords) if they use a token generated by their ISC user, such as a personal access token or "authorization_code" derived OAuth token.

Note: If you want to set an identity's source account password, you must enable PASSWORD as one of the source's features. You can use the PATCH Source endpoint to add the PASSWORD feature.

To generate the encryptedPassword (RSA encrypted using publicKey) for the request body, run the following command:

echo -n "myPassword" | openssl pkeyutl -encrypt -inkey public_key.pem -pubin | base64

In this example, myPassword is the plain text password being set and encrypted, and public_key.pem is the path to the public key file. You can retrieve the required publicKey, along with other information like identityId, sourceId, publicKeyId, accounts, and policies, using the Query Password Info endpoint.

To successfully run this command, you must have OpenSSL installed on your machine. If OpenSSL is unavailable, consider using the Virtual Appliance (VA), which has OpenSSL pre-installed and configured.

If you are using a Windows machine, refer to this guide for instructions on installing OpenSSL.

You can then use Get Password Change Request Status to check the password change request status. To do so, you must provide the requestId from your earlier request to set the password.

Request​

Responses​

Reference to the password change.