Example: Resetting the security user passwords for a tenant
Here’s a sample POST request that resets the passwords for the tenant named Finance to start123. The empty request body has a content type of JSON. The request is made using a system-level user account that includes the administrator role.
Request with cURL command line
curl -k -i -d "{}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: HCP YWxscm9sZXM=:04EC9F614D89FF5C7126D32ACB448382" "https://admin.hcp.example.com:9090/mapi/tenants/finance/userAccounts ?resetPasswords=start123"
Request in Python using PycURL
import pycurl curl = pycurl.Curl() curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: HCP \ YWxscm9sZXM=:04EC9F614D89FF5C7126D32ACB448382"]) curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://admin.hcp-ca.example.com:9090/mapi/tenants/finance/" + "userAccounts?resetPasswords=start123") curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0) curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0) curl.setopt(pycurl.CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST") curl.perform() print curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE) curl.close()
Request headers
POST /mapi/tenants/finance/userAccounts?resetPasswords=start123 HTTP/1.1 Host: admin.hcp.example.com:9090 Accept: */* Authorization: HCP YWxscm9sZXM=:04EC9F614D89FF5C7126D32ACB448382 Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 2
Response headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Type: application/xmlX-HCP-SoftwareVersion: 9.0.0.2Content-Length: 0