Updating user passwords via the web api?

Updating user passwords via the web api?

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We just tried creating accounts for everyone in our school district and ran into some unexpected problems involving user passwords. We used the web APIs and discovered that passwords could be set properly when creating new users; however, the passwords didn't "take" when we attempted to update passwords on existing accounts. Strangely enough, updated users received emails from TC5.5 (we have a CSModule for this) with the invalid password!

Can a user's password be changed through the web API? If not, can it be changed within a CSModule?

Thanks!

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  • The User object only ever deals with passwords when a user is created.  AT all other times, the password property on the user is empty, and is ignored.  This is becuase the password is handled by the Membership APIs, and the password property on the user is only used to pass the password to the Membership APIs (which only occurs when a user is being created).