influx user password

  • influx CLI 2.0.0+
  • InfluxDB 2.0.0+

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