API referenceidentity
Set first password
POST
/v1/auth/password/setAccepts bearer
Set the first password of an account that has none; every OTHER session of the user is revoked
Console session only (an access token): an API key is 403 PERMISSION_DENIED details.reason ACCESS_TOKEN_REQUIRED.Show more
Console session only (an access token): an API key is 403 PERMISSION_DENIED details.reason ACCESS_TOKEN_REQUIRED. The credential is checked before the body is parsed. An account that already has a password is 403 PERMISSION_DENIED details.reason PASSWORD_ALREADY_SET; it uses POST /v1/auth/password/change. Proof: when the user has an MFA factor enrolled, exactly one of stepUpCode and stepUpAssertion is required; neither, both or a wrong one is 403 PERMISSION_DENIED details.reason STEP_UP_FAILED, and a user locked out of step-up is STEP_UP_LOCKED. With no factor enrolled the session must be recent: signed in no more than 15 minutes ago (the session's sign-in time; a refresh does not renew it), otherwise 403 PERMISSION_DENIED details.reason STEP_UP_REQUIRED, whose message tells the person to use forgot and reset (POST /v1/auth/password/forgot). newPassword follows the password policy (12 to 1024 characters). On success every other session family of the user is revoked (reason PASSWORD_SET; their refresh is 401 SESSION_REVOKED) and the caller's own session stays; POST /v1/auth/login and /v1/auth/sign-in then accept the password. Rate-limited 60 per client IP and 10 per user, as change is. No Idempotency-Key. Plain JSON, not an envelope. No new error code: PASSWORD_ALREADY_SET and STEP_UP_REQUIRED are new details.reason values of PERMISSION_DENIED.Request body
- newPasswordstringRequired
- stepUpCodestringOptionalA current code from the caller's MFA factor; required when one is enrolled
- stepUpAssertionWebAuthnAssertionOptional
A WebAuthn assertion (the JSON of a PublicKeyCredential from navigator.credentials.get), every binary value base64url.Show more
A WebAuthn assertion (the JSON of a PublicKeyCredential from navigator.credentials.get), every binary value base64url. The stepUpAssertion of every step-up-guarded body. Obtain the challenge from POST /ops/v1/auth/mfa/step-up/webauthn-options.5 child attributes
- idstringRequiredThe credential id, base64url
- rawIdstringRequiredThe credential id, base64url
- typestringRequired
- public-key
- responseobjectRequired
4 child attributes
- clientDataJSONstringRequiredbase64url
- authenticatorDatastringRequiredbase64url
- signaturestringRequiredbase64url
- userHandlestringOptionalbase64url, or null when the authenticator returns none
- clientExtensionResultsobjectOptional
Responses
- 204Set; other sessions revoked
- 400VALIDATION — the policy (details.field newPassword, minLength) or a malformed bodyApiErrorResponse
- 401ApiErrorResponse
UNAUTHENTICATED — missing or expired token.Show more
UNAUTHENTICATED — missing or expired token. Declared on every operation because `security` is declared globally at the document root: every route is authenticated, so every route can answer 401. - 403PERMISSION_DENIED — ACCESS_TOKEN_REQUIRED for an API key, PASSWORD_ALREADY_SET, STEP_UP_REQUIRED (no factor and a session older than 15 minutes), STEP_UP_FAILED or STEP_UP_LOCKEDApiErrorResponse
- 405ApiErrorResponse
VALIDATION — the public edge serves GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE only; any other method is refused before the platform sees it (details.reason METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED, details.source edge).Show more
VALIDATION — the public edge serves GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE only; any other method is refused before the platform sees it (details.reason METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED, details.source edge). Not retryable as sent. - 413ApiErrorResponse
VALIDATION — the request body is larger than the surface's limit.Show more
VALIDATION — the request body is larger than the surface's limit. Not retryable as sent: shrink the body. Declared on every operation that takes a request body. details carries exactly one key, maxBodyBytes (integer): the limit that applies to this surface, in bytes. - 414ApiErrorResponse
VALIDATION — the request URI (path and query string) is longer than 8 KiB; the public edge refuses it before the platform sees it (details.reason URI_TOO_LONG, details.source edge).Show more
VALIDATION — the request URI (path and query string) is longer than 8 KiB; the public edge refuses it before the platform sees it (details.reason URI_TOO_LONG, details.source edge). Not retryable as sent: send long input in the body of a POST. - 415ApiErrorResponse
VALIDATION — a request body that is not JSON (application/json or application/*+json; a form body only on the OAuth token routes).Show more
VALIDATION — a request body that is not JSON (application/json or application/*+json; a form body only on the OAuth token routes). The public edge refuses it before the platform sees it (details.reason UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE, details.source edge). Not retryable as sent: send Content-Type application/json. Declared on every operation that takes a JSON request body. - 429ApiErrorResponse
Counted in fixed windows (default 15 min).Show more
Counted in fixed windows (default 15 min). The signup, login, password and invite routes count every attempt per client address AND per subject (the email, the username + site, or the invite token). POST /v1/oauth/token is counted three ways, none of them on client_id alone, so knowing a client_id (which is not secret) never lets anyone spend its holder's budget: oauth-token counts every attempt per client address only; oauth-token-failure counts FAILED client authentications per client address and per (client address, client_id) pair; oauth-token-issued counts tokens issued per client_id only, and only a request whose secret, grant_type and scope all passed can spend it. details.reason says which limit tripped (CLIENT_RATE_LIMITED | SUBJECT_RATE_LIMITED) and details.action which count (signup | signup-verify | login | password-forgot | password-reset | invite-accept | oauth-token | oauth-token-failure | oauth-token-issued). Retry-After is whole seconds to the end of the window, and details.retryAfterMs mirrors it. The answer is the same whether or not the account or key exists, so the limit cannot be used to enumerate accounts, and nothing the caller sent is echoed. adds three counts per client address for the MCP grant routes: oauth-authorize (GET /v1/oauth/authorize, which may fetch a Client ID Metadata Document), oauth-register (POST /v1/oauth/register) and oauth-device (POST /v1/oauth/device_authorization), and one count per MCP grant, oauth-exchange-grant (the token exchange of POST /v1/oauth/token, counted per grant after the exchange client and the subject token verified, default 120 a minute), whose details.reason is EXCHANGE_RATE_LIMITED. - 500INTERNAL — a bug, and traceId is the support handle.ApiErrorResponse
Errors you should handle
Branch on code and honour retryable — never on the HTTP status alone.
| 400 | VALIDATION newPassword must be 12 to 1024 characters long. | not retryable |
| 401 | UNAUTHENTICATED The bearer token is expired. Re-authenticate and retry. | not retryable |
| 403 | PERMISSION_DENIED This operation needs a console session (an access token), not an API key. | not retryable |
| 405 | VALIDATION This method is not served. | not retryable |
| 413 | VALIDATION The request body is larger than this API accepts (262144 bytes). | not retryable |
| 414 | VALIDATION The request URI is longer than 8 KiB. | not retryable |
| 415 | VALIDATION Send application/json. | not retryable |
| 429 | RATE_LIMITED Too many requests of this kind for this address or account. Wait for the Retry-After interval before trying again. | retryable |
| 500 | INTERNAL An unexpected error occurred. Quote the traceId to support. | retryable |