Validating Password Strength

Function

This API is used to check whether an instance password is a weak password.

URI

POST /v3/{project_id}/weak-password-verification

Table 1 Path parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Project ID of a tenant in a region

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

x-auth-token

Yes

String

User token.

It can be obtained by calling an IAM API. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

password

Yes

String

Character string to be validated

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

is_weak_password

Boolean

Whether the password is a weak password. The value can be: true: indicating that the password is a weak password. Such a password is not recommended. false: indicating that the password is not a weak password. Such a password is recommended.

Status code: 400

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

errCode

String

Service error code

externalMessage

String

Error message

Status code: 500

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

errCode

String

Service error code

externalMessage

String

Error message

Example Request

POST https://{endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/weak-password-verification

{
  "password" : "xxx"
}

Example Response

Status code: 200

OK

{
  "is_weak_password" : true
}

Status code: 400

bad request

{
  "externalMessage" : "Parameter error.",
  "errCode" : "DBS.280001"
}

Status code: 500

server error

{
  "externalMessage" : "Server failure.",
  "errCode" : "DBS.200412"
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

OK

400

bad request

500

server error

Error Codes

For details, see Error Codes.