SoftLayer_User_Customer_OpenIdConnect::updateVpnPassword

Update a user’s VPN password

Description

Update a user’s VPN password on the SoftLayer customer portal. As with portal passwords, VPN passwords must match the following restrictions. VPN passwords must…

• …be over eight characters long.
• …be under twenty characters long.
• …contain at least one uppercase letter
• …contain at least one lowercase letter
• …contain at least one number
• …contain one of the special characters _ - | @ . , ? / ! ~ # $ % ^ & * ( ) { } [ ] \ =
• …not match your username Finally, users can only update their own VPN password. An account’s master user can update any of their account users’ VPN passwords.

Parameters

Required Headers

• Authenticate
• SoftLayer_User_Customer_OpenIdConnectInitParameters

Optional Headers

• None

Return Values

• boolean

Error Handling

• Throws the exception “Access is denied.” if a user tries to change another user’s VPN password and is not the account’s master user.
• Throws the exception “Your VPN password must” followed by a list of violated password rules if the given password fails to match any of the above restrictions.

Associated Methods

• SoftLayer_User_Customer::updatePassword

REST Example

curl -g -u $SL_USER:$SL_APIKEY -X POST -d '{"parameters": [string]}' \
'https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3.1/SoftLayer_User_Customer_OpenIdConnect/{SoftLayer_User_Customer_OpenIdConnectID}/updateVpnPassword'