This article explains an error that occurs when attempting to call the POST /dbconnections/change_password endpoint to initiate a password reset.

Self changing of passwords is not enabled on this connection

• Database Connection

• Change Password Endpoint

This error occurs because the disable_self_service_change_password flag is set to true in the database connection settings.

• Call the GET /v2/connections/{id} endpoint to retrieve the current connection configuration. The options object from this response is required for the next step.

• Call the PATCH /v2/connections/{id} endpoint using the appropriate connection_id. In the request body, pass the full options object from the previous step and set the disable_self_service_change_password flag to false.

  {
    "options": {
      // Include all other options attributes from step 1
      "disable_self_service_change_password": false
    }
  }

• Call the /dbconnections/change_password endpoint again to verify the change was successful.