Query parameter for resetting security user passwords

A tenant must at all times have at least one user that can manage user and group accounts. This means that the tenant must have at least one user or group account with the security role. If the tenant does not have such a group account and the passwords for all user accounts with the security role have been lost, the tenant is in a state in which no users can manage user and group accounts.

To recover from this state, you can use the resetPasswords query parameter to change the passwords of all user accounts with the security role to a password that you specify. The value of this parameter is the password you want. For the rules for passwords, see Passwords.

To reset security user passwords for a tenant, you need a system-level user account with the administrator role.

You use the resetPasswords query parameter with a POST request against the userAccounts resource, as in this example:

curl -k -i -d "<userAccounts/>" -H "Content-Type: application/xml"
    -H "Authorization: HCP YWxscm9sZXM=:04EC9F614D89FF5C7126D32ACB448382"
    "https://admin.hcp.example.com:9090/mapi/tenants/finance/userAccounts
         ?resetPasswords=start123”

As an alternative to resetting user account passwords, you can reset a security group for the tenant,. For information on doing this, see Query parameter for resetting the security group.

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