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[Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

You need to send the full payload. Are you on 2.18? you could use PATCH for
this now.. something like

{
  "password": "new-password"
}

curl -X PATCH -d @password.json -u user:pass
http://localhost:8080/api/users/ID/password

(untested, but should work)

--
Morten

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Jose Garcia Muñoz <josemp10@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
> Thanks Jason,
>
> sorry, and how should it work? I tried with the following call...
>
> curl.exe -d @user.json "http://localhost:8080/dhis/api/users/oEiOvqVp3A9";
> -H "Content-Type:application/json" -u myuser:mypasswd -v
>
> where the user.json file just contains
>
> {
>   "username": "the_user_name",
>   "password": "the_user_passwd"
> }
>
> But the system gives me an error
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks
> Jose
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Jason Pickering <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jose,
>>
>> Yes, it is possible to send the plain-text password of a user to the
>> system using the API, which will then hash the password for you and
>> persist it in the database.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Jose Garcia Muñoz <josemp10@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi devs,
>> >
>> > I didn't see anything in the documentation in that regard. I could only
>> find
>> > out the user replication as the only way to specify a user passwd using
>> the
>> > API. Am I correct?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Jose
>> >
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>> --
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>
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