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Reset a user's password

POST 
/users/:username/reset-password

Required role: admin. Only an account or token with the admin role can call this operation.

Example request
curl --request POST \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $HOSERVA_TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data @body.json \
  "https://$HOSERVA_HOST:8008/api/v1/users/{username}/reset-password"

Root-only over the Unix socket. Checked against the peer's uid 0 specifically — the hoserva group and TCP are refused. Audit-logged and announced through every notification channel.

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Password reset.