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# Changes a user password

POST https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password
Content-Type: application/json

Allows users with a valid reset token to reset their password without remembering their old password

Reference: https://docs.getunleash.io/api/change-password

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (required) — API key needed to access this API
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — API key needed to access this API, in Bearer token format

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a changePasswordSchema.

- `token` (string, required) — A reset token used to validate that the user is allowed to change the password.
- `password` (string, required) — The new password for the user

## Response

### 200

This response has no body.

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Authorization information is missing or invalid. Provide a valid API token as the `authorization` header, e.g. `authorization:*.*.my-admin-token`.

- `id` (string, optional) — The ID of the error instance
- `name` (string, optional) — The name of the error kind
- `message` (string, optional) — A description of what went wrong.

### 403 Forbidden Error

The provided user credentials are valid, but the user does not have the necessary permissions to perform this operation

- `id` (string, optional) — The ID of the error instance
- `name` (string, optional) — The name of the error kind
- `message` (string, optional) — A description of what went wrong.

### 415 Unsupported Media Type Error

The operation does not support request payloads of the provided type. Please ensure that you're using one of the listed payload types and that you have specified the right content type in the "content-type" header.

- `id` (string, optional) — The ID of the error instance
- `name` (string, optional) — The name of the error kind
- `message` (string, optional) — A description of what went wrong.

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "token": "$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke",
  "password": "correct horse battery staple"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password"

payload = {
    "token": "$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke",
    "password": "correct horse battery staple"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "<apiKey>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: '<apiKey>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"token":"$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke","password":"correct horse battery staple"}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"token\": \"$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke\",\n  \"password\": \"correct horse battery staple\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "<apiKey>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = '<apiKey>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"token\": \"$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke\",\n  \"password\": \"correct horse battery staple\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password")
  .header("Authorization", "<apiKey>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"token\": \"$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke\",\n  \"password\": \"correct horse battery staple\"\n}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password', [
  'body' => '{
  "token": "$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke",
  "password": "correct horse battery staple"
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => '<apiKey>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "<apiKey>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"token\": \"$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke\",\n  \"password\": \"correct horse battery staple\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "<apiKey>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "token": "$2a$15$QzeW/y5/MEppCWVEkoX5euejobYOLSd4We21LQjjKlWH9l2I3wCke",
  "password": "correct horse battery staple"
] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/password")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```