Account

Cognito forgot password init

Starts a password reset by sending a verification code to the given email address. Throttled per IP, and the confirm step is throttled per email address.

POST /api/sys/v{version:apiVersion}/account/cognito_forgot_password_init

Authorisation: No authentication needed

Request arguments

Name	Type	Source
input	DTO_cognito_forgot_password_init	Body

Request body example

Response

Status: 200 (OK)
Type: DTO_acknowledgement

Wrapper: DTO_response_wrap

Other statuses: 400 (BadRequest), 429 (TooManyRequests)

Response body example

DTO_cognito_forgot_password_init

Name	Type	ReadOnly	Description
email	String		Email

DTO_acknowledgement

Name	Type	ReadOnly	Description
message	String		Message

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