Reveal the password used during instance creation or the latest password reset.

GET /instance/{id}:password

Reveal the password used during instance creation or the latest password reset. This is only available for VMs created against templates having the password-enabled property set to true.

Passwords are transiently stored for at most 24 hours and intended to be retrieved shortly after creation or resets.

Path parameters

  • id string(uuid) Required

Responses

  • • 200 application/json

    200

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GET /instance/{id}:password 
curl \
 -X GET https://api-ch-gva-2.exoscale.com/v2/instance/{id}:password
Response examples (200) 
{
  "password": "string"
}