user: changePassword

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Enable the user to update their password. Any user can update their password without belonging to any administrator role.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Directory.AccessAsUser.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /me/changePassword

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
currentPassword	String	Your current password.
newPassword	String	Your new password.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Example

The following example shows a request to update your own password.

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/changePassword
Content-type: application/json

{
    "currentPassword": "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d",
    "newPassword": "0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Me.ChangePassword;

var requestBody = new ChangePasswordPostRequestBody
{
	CurrentPassword = "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d",
	NewPassword = "0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Me.ChangePassword.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users change-password post --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
    "currentPassword": "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d",\
    "newPassword": "0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/users"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphusers.NewItemChangePasswordPostRequestBody()
currentPassword := "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d"
requestBody.SetCurrentPassword(&currentPassword) 
newPassword := "0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]"
requestBody.SetNewPassword(&newPassword) 

graphClient.Me().ChangePassword().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.users.item.changepassword.ChangePasswordPostRequestBody changePasswordPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.users.item.changepassword.ChangePasswordPostRequestBody();
changePasswordPostRequestBody.setCurrentPassword("xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d");
changePasswordPostRequestBody.setNewPassword("0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]");
graphClient.me().changePassword().post(changePasswordPostRequestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const changePassword = {
    currentPassword: 'xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d',
    newPassword: '0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]'
};

await client.api('/me/changePassword')
	.post(changePassword);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ChangePasswordPostRequestBody;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ChangePasswordPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setCurrentPassword('xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d');
$requestBody->setNewPassword('0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]');

$graphServiceClient->me()->changePassword()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Users.Actions

$params = @{
	currentPassword = "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d"
	newPassword = "0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Update-MgUserPassword -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.change_password_post_request_body import ChangePasswordPostRequestBody

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ChangePasswordPostRequestBody(
	current_password = "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d",
	new_password = "0eM85N54wFxWwvJ]",
)

await graph_client.me.change_password.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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