56f3n (56f3n) asked a question.
remove or reset security question
Is there anyway to reset or deleted an end user security question ?
- marius.voinescu1.5083867485705222E12 (Okta, Inc.)
Hi Daniel,
This is Marius from Okta support.
In order to modify the security question and answer you can use the bellow API call:
https://developer.okta.com/docs/api/resources/users/#change-recovery-question
In order to not use the password you can modify the call to use PUT instead of a POST and have the body as follows:
PUT /api/v1/users/00u248mc69Ve6EnmH2p7 HTTP/1.1
Host: bfn.okta.com
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: SSWS 00WhbqxfC4y31pMOhJ9hN1qEhRHUuvMDJTIRBih3kI
User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.11.0
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: c0595dda-3ef8-41e1-a924-58da928ff0c3,816dda60-ba37-4d36-a26e-e3e98df1282f
Host: bfn.okta.com
cookie: JSESSIONID=69E1ED615409F4D9782B860C6CF52CFB
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
content-length: 146
Connection: keep-alive
cache-control: no-cache
{
"credentials": {
"recovery_question": {
"question": "Who's a major player in the cowboy scene?",
"answer": "avion"
}
}
}
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Hi Daniel,
This is Marius from Okta support.
In order to modify the security question and answer you can use the bellow API call:
https://developer.okta.com/docs/api/resources/users/#change-recovery-question
In order to not use the password you can modify the call to use PUT instead of a POST and have the body as follows:
PUT /api/v1/users/00u248mc69Ve6EnmH2p7 HTTP/1.1
Host: bfn.okta.com
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: SSWS 00WhbqxfC4y31pMOhJ9hN1qEhRHUuvMDJTIRBih3kI
User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.11.0
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: c0595dda-3ef8-41e1-a924-58da928ff0c3,816dda60-ba37-4d36-a26e-e3e98df1282f
Host: bfn.okta.com
cookie: JSESSIONID=69E1ED615409F4D9782B860C6CF52CFB
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
content-length: 146
Connection: keep-alive
cache-control: no-cache
{
"credentials": {
"recovery_question": {
"question": "Who's a major player in the cowboy scene?",
"answer": "avion"
}
}
}