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passwd

Password Change API

Change the Eenos user account password.

Required Parameters

Field Description Example
apiuser The API username eenos_api
apiauth The API  user password eenos123
user The eenos account username myclient

Optional Parameters

Field Description Example
password A new password, if not given a random password will be used newpassword

Result Status Codes

Status Code Description
200 OK, Success
500 Server error
403 Forbidden, demo server
400 Bad request or bad data

Request URL

Post url  = /passwd/

Full URL =  https://your-host-name:5555/api/passwd/

Curl Code

#!/bin/bash
REQUEST_URL="/passwd/"
BASE_URL="https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1"
# Default base url
# BASE_URL="https://your-host-name:5555/api"
# Version specific base url
# BASE_URL="https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1"
API_URL="$BASE_URL$REQUEST_URL"
/usr/bin/curl -X POST $API_URL \
    -d "apiuser=eenos_api" \
    -d "apiauth=eenos123" \
    -d "user=myclient" \
    -d "password=newpassword"

Sample Output

{
   "data" : "User password changed for myclient",
   "info" : "Hosting account password changed successfully",
   "status" : 200
}
Python Code 
#!/usr/bin/python3
import requests
from pprint import pprint
# The API request url
request_url='/passwd/'
# The server api base url
base_url='https://your-host-name:5555/api'
# Default  base url
# base_url='https://your-host-name:5555/api'
# Version specific base url
# base_url='https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1'
# The api url 
api_ulr=base_url+request_url
# The data in dictionary format
data={
    'apiuser': 'eenos_api',
    'apiauth':'eenos123',
    'domain':'myclientsite.com',
    'user':'myclient',    
}
try:   
    result=requests.post(api_ulr, data = data)
    pprint(result.json())
except Exception as e:
    pprint(str(e))
    pass
PHP Code 
<?php
// The API request url
$request_url='/passwd/';

// Your server API base url
$base_url='https://your-host-name:5555/api';
// Default base url
// $base_url='https://your-host-name:5555/api';
// Version specific base url
// $base_url='https://your-host-name:5555/api/v1';
// The FULL API URL
$api_url=$base_url.$request_url;
//The data you want to send via POST
$fields= [
    'apiuser'   =>  'eenos_api',
    'apiauth'   =>  'eenos123',    
    'user'      =>  'myclient',   
];
//url-ify the data for the POST
$fields_string = http_build_query($fields);
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $api_url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
//So that curl_exec returns the contents of the cURL; rather than echoing it
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//Print the json result
echo json_encode(json_decode($result), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
?>
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