[role="xpack"]
[[security-api-change-password]]
=== Change Password API

The Change Password API enables you to submit a request to change the password
of a user. Every user can change their own password and users with the
`manage_security` privilege can change passwords of other users.

To change the password of the logged in user, submit a POST request to the
`_xpack/security/user/_password` endpoint:

[source,js]
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POST _xpack/security/user/elastic/_password
{
  "password": "x-pack-test-password"
}
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// CONSOLE

A successful call returns an empty JSON structure.

[source,js]
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{}
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// TESTRESPONSE
