How to Change a Technician's Password

Change the password of a technician.

Why would you do this? In case a technician forgets his password you can easily change that with Rescue API.

Account holders log in by using the logIn API method.

Using HTTP GET request:

https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/API/login.aspx?email=some@email.com
&pwd=secretPassword

Using HTTP POST request:

<form method="post" action="https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/API/login.aspx">
        <input name="email" value="some@email.com">
        <input name="pwd" value="secretPassword">
</form>

Response: OK

Change the password of the technician.

Use the setUser_v2 API method to generate a report.

Using HTTP GET request:

https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/API/setUser.aspx?node=337366&name=John Doe
&nick=JDoe&email=jdoe@company.com&ssoid=123456&pwd=secretPassword
&confpwd=secretPassword&oldpwd=oldPassword&status=enabled&description=Admin
&addons=true&rpataddon=false

Using HTTP POST request:

<form method="post" action="https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/API/setUser.aspx">
        <input name="node" value="337366">
        <input name="name" value="John Doe">
        <input name="nick" value="JDoe">
        <input name="email" value="jdoe@company.com">
        <input name="ssoid" value="123456">
        <input name="pwd" value="secretPassword">
        <input name="confpwd" value="secretPassword">
        <input name="oldpwd" value="oldPassword">
        <input name="status" value="enabled">
        <input name="description" value="Admin">
        <input name="addons" value="true">
        <input name="rpataddon" value="false">
</form>

Response: OK

The password of the technician has been changed from oldPassword to secretPassword.

Here is a complete example for checking technician availability:

With HTTP GET

https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/API/login.aspx?email=some@email.com
&pwd=secretPassword
https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/API/setUser.aspx?node=337366&name=John Doe
&nick=JDoe
&email=jdoe@company.com&ssoid=123456&pwd=secretPassword&confpwd=secretPassword
&oldpwd=oldPassword&status=enabled&description=Admin&addons=true&rpataddon=false

With HTTP POST

<form method="post" action="https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/API/login.aspx">
        <input name="email" value="some@email.com">
        <input name="pwd" value="secretPassword">
</form
<form method="post" action="https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/API/setUser.aspx">
        <input name="node" value="337366">
        <input name="name" value="John Doe">
        <input name="nick" value="JDoe">
        <input name="email" value="jdoe@company.com">
        <input name="ssoid" value="123456">
        <input name="pwd" value="secretPassword">
        <input name="confpwd" value="secretPassword">
        <input name="oldpwd" value="oldPassword">
        <input name="status" value="enabled">
        <input name="description" value="Admin">
        <input name="addons" value="true">
        <input name="rpataddon" value="false">
</form>