Setting passwords on the create and createOrUpdate API calls

David Hart

I got a question from a partner about how to set the password when creating a new user and discovered that while not documented, this feature is available.

I have verified that if you add the argument password= to the parameters, it will set the user password when creating a new user (either under the create or createOrUpdate method). It will never modify the password on either an update or createOrUpdate call. The thought behind this design decision was that changing a password frequently requires additional security like entering the old password, and that we should look at providing a separate API call for doing the password change in the future.

We'll get the documentation updated and keep you posted on when the API for changing the user's password becomes available.

Dave