OpenStack Keystone Issue with Update of User’s Password – Havana

OpenStack Keystone Update User’s Password – Havana

Thanks to this source which helped me out with Openstack keystone documentation issue.

Source: 

http://blog.autodevbot.com/2014/04/15/openstack-keystone-update-users-password-havana/comment-page-1/#comment-59

It took me a while to figure out how to update a user’s password via the API in Keystone.  All of the documentation seems to be incorrect.  I finally had to take a packet trace of the keystone CLI performing a password update and looking at that before I got the correct API endpoint and what to send to the server.  It turns out to be a PUT request and not like most of their documentation saying it is is a POST request.  Which would make sense since PUT is for updating.

Here is the cURL command:

curl -X PUT \
-H “X-Auth-Token:” \
-H “Content-type: application/json” \
-d ‘{“user”: {“password”: “new_password”, “id”: ““}}’\

http://localhost:35357/v2.0/users//OS-KSADM/password