influx user password

  • influx CLI 2.0.0+
  • InfluxDB 2.0.0+

This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB. InfluxDB v2.7 is the latest stable version. View this page in the v2.7 documentation.

The influx user password command updates the password for a user in InfluxDB.

Usage

  1. influx user password [flags]

Flags

FlagDescriptionInput typeMaps to ?
-c—active-configCLI configuration to use for commandstring
—configs-pathPath to influx CLI configurations (default ~/.influxdbv2/configs)stringINFLUX_CONFIGS_PATH
-h—helpHelp for the password command
—hostHTTP address of InfluxDB (default http://localhost:8086)stringINFLUX_HOST
-i—idUser IDstring
-n—nameUsernamestring
—passwordUse password flag to send your password instead of typing it instring
—skip-verifySkip TLS certificate verificationINFLUX_SKIP_VERIFY
-t—tokenAPI tokenstringINFLUX_TOKEN

Examples

Authentication credentials

The examples below assume your InfluxDB host, organization, and token are provided by either the active influx CLI configuration or by environment variables (INFLUX_HOST, INFLUX_ORG, and INFLUX_TOKEN). If you do not have a CLI configuration set up or the environment variables set, include these required credentials for each command with the following flags:

  • --host: InfluxDB host
  • -o, --org or --org-id: InfluxDB organization name or ID
  • -t, --token: InfluxDB API token
Update a user password using a username
  1. influx user password --name example-username
  2. # Prompts for password
Update a user password using a user ID
  1. influx user password --id 0Xx0oox00XXoxxoo1
  2. # Prompts for password