Modify password history settings

Manages the password history settings for an entity type. Password history tracks as many as the last 10 password employed by a user, and prevents the user from setting their password to any of those prior password values.

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Modify password history settings
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Form Data
string

Unique identifier of your Identity Cloud application. You can find your application ID on Console’s Manage Application page.

settings
object

Number of passwords retained in the password history. For example, the value 5 indicates that a user’s last 5 passwords are retained. Set historySize to a value from 0 up to 10, with 0 disabling password history.

string

Name of the entity type (user profile database) where the user profile is stored.

Response

Response body
object
string

Status of the operation.

OK ERROR FAIL

settings
array of objects

Specifies the number of passwords kept in the password history. If historySize is set to 1, that only prevents the user from reusing their current password. If historySize is set to 0, then password history is disabled and users are free to reset their password to anything, including their current password.

settings
object
integer
0 to 10
Defaults to 0

Number of user passwords Identity Cloud keeps track of.

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