Change a User's Password

Owned by Kim Stimpson
Last updated: 22 Jan, 2015
1 min read

If a user wishes to change their password you will need to call the UpdatePassword method. This method is available to developers from the UserManager.asmx Web Service. 

Parameters

 

ClientId

mandatory

This is the id for the client that was returned by the CreateSessionKey method.

SessionKey

mandatory

This is the SessionKey for the client that was returned by the CreateSessionKey method.

UserId

mandatory

This is the unique user id for the user as stored in the My Alerts database.

OldPasswordmandatoryThe user’s original password.
NewPasswordmandatoryThe new password for the user.

Name

Requirement

Description

Returns

Syntax
<UpdatePasswordResult>
	<Error>
		<Code>string</Code>
        <Description>string</Description>
    </Error>
    <Success>boolean</Success
</UpdatePasswordResult>

Error- Code / Description

An error code and description if the call to the web service is unsuccessful and the Success if False.

1001 – Invalid Session key provided

Success

This will be either True or False. If False an error message will be provided in the Error result, if True the the user's password will be updated.