UpdateUser - API Reference| Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

This topic provides an example to show how to change the name of a RAM user from zhangq**** to xiaoq****.

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Request parameters


Parameter	Type	Required	Example	Description
Action	String	Yes	UpdateUser	The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to UpdateUser.
UserName	String	Yes	zhangq****	The name of the RAM user.
NewUserName	String	Yes	xiaoq****	The new name of the RAM user. The name must be 1 to 64 characters in length, and can contain letters, digits, periods (.), hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
NewDisplayName	String	No	xiaoq****	The new display name of the RAM user. The name must be 1 to 128 characters in length, and can contain letters, digits, periods (.), at signs (@), hyphens (-), and spaces.
NewMobilePhone	String	No	86-1860000****	The new mobile phone number of the RAM user. Format: <Country code>-<Mobile phone number>.
NewEmail	String	No	xiaoq****@example.com	The new email address of the RAM user.
NewComments	String	No	This is a cloud computing engineer.	The new description. The description must be 1 to 128 characters in length.

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters


Parameter	Type	Example	Description
User	Object		The information of the RAM user.
DisplayName	String	xiaoq****	The display name of the RAM user.
Email	String	xiaoq****@example.com	The email address of the RAM user.
UpdateDate	String	2015-02-11T03:15:21Z	The time when the information of the RAM user was updated.
MobilePhone	String	86-1860000****	The mobile phone number of the RAM user.
UserId	String	122748924538****	The unique ID of the RAM user.
Comments	String	This is a cloud computing engineer.	The description of the RAM user.
CreateDate	String	2015-01-23T12:33:18Z	The time when the RAM user was created.
UserName	String	xiaoq****	The name of the RAM user.
RequestId	String	04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368	The ID of the request.

Examples

Sample requests

https://ram.aliyuncs.com/?Action=UpdateUser
&UserName=zhangq****
&NewUserName=xiaoq****
&<Common request parameters>

Sample success responses

XML format

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type:application/xml

<RequestId>04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368</RequestId>
<User>
    <UserId>122748924538****</UserId>
    <UserName>xiaoq****</UserName>
    <DisplayName>xiaoq*****</DisplayName>
    <MobilePhone>86-1860000****</MobilePhone>
    <Email>xiaoq****@example.com</Email>
    <Comments>This is a cloud computing engineer.</Comments>
    <CreateDate>2015-01-23T12:33:18Z</CreateDate>
    <UpdateDate>2015-02-11T03:15:21Z</UpdateDate>
</User>

JSON format

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type:application/json

{
  "RequestId" : "04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368",
  "User" : {
    "UserId" : "122748924538****",
    "UserName" : "xiaoq****",
    "DisplayName" : "xiaoq*****",
    "MobilePhone" : "86-1860000****",
    "Email" : "xiaoq****@example.com",
    "Comments": "This is a cloud computing engineer.",
    "CreateDate" : "2015-01-23T12:33:18Z",
    "UpdateDate" : "2015-02-11T03:15:21Z"
  }
}

Error codes

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