Secret questions and answers

Use the the following Secret questions and answers resource operations to add and manage confidential information on an account that Rackspace Support can use for account verification.

• Add a secret question
• Get questions

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DEPRECATED:

Secret question and answer has been deprecated. However, these operations are still listed as a reference for legacy customers. This functionality has been replaced by the Support PIN.

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Note

Some of the functionality described in this section is provided by the OS-KSADM and RAX-KSQA extensions to the core Identity API.

Add a secret question

POST /v2.0/users/{userId}/RAX-AUTH/secretqas

Creates a secret question that can be added to user accounts.

The Identity service provides a list of security questions that can be used to verify account access. Administrators and users can add one of these questions to a user account with a unique answer that can be used to confirm identity before granting access to the account or account information. Users can only add a security question to their own account.

If the account already has a secret question and answer, this operation replaces the existing information with the values specified in the request body.

This table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Request

This table shows the header parameter for the request:

This table shows the body parameters for the request:

Example: Create a secret question request: XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<secretqa answer="Himalayas" id="1"
 xmlns="http://docs.rackspace.com/identity/api/ext/RAX-AUTH/v1.0"
 xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
 xmlns:identity="http://docs.openstack.org/identity/api/v2.0"/>

Example: Create a secret question request: JSON

{
"RAX-AUTH:secretqa":
  {
    "id": "1",
    "answer": "Himalayas",
  }
}

Response

This example shows the response:

Example: Create a secret question HTTP response header

POST /v2.0/users/266d3c8982534378bf88f64db2c916da/RAX-AUTH/secretqas HTTP/1.1
Host: staging.identity-internal.api.rackspacecloud.com
X-Auth-Token: 0f6e9f63600142f0a970911583522217

Get questions

GET /v2.0/RAX-AUTH/secretqa/questions

Returns a list of secret questions that can be added to user accounts.

The list includes secret questions and associated IDs required to manage questions by using the Identity service API. questions.

This table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Request

This table shows the header parameters for the request:

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example: Get questions response: XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rax-auth:questions xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" 
     xmlns:rax-auth="http://docs.rackspace.com/identity/api/ext/RAX-AUTH/v1.0" 
     xmlns="http://docs.openstack.org/identity/api/v2.0" 
     xmlns:ns4="http://docs.rackspace.com/identity/api/ext/RAX-KSGRP/v1.0" 
     xmlns:rax-ksqa="http://docs.rackspace.com/identity/api/ext/RAX-KSQA/v1.0" 
     xmlns:os-ksadm="http://docs.openstack.org/identity/api/ext/OS-KSADM/v1.0" 
     xmlns:rax-kskey="http://docs.rackspace.com/identity/api/ext/RAX-KSKEY/v1.0" 
     xmlns:os-ksec2="http://docs.openstack.org/identity/api/ext/OS-KSEC2/v1.0">
     <rax-auth:question id="6" question="What is your pass phrase?"/>
     <rax-auth:question id="5" question="Who let the dogs out?"/>
     <rax-auth:question id="4" question="What is your favorite color?"/>
     <rax-auth:question id="3" question="What is your favorite book?"/>
     <rax-auth:question id="2" question="Where is the best place to live?"/>
     <rax-auth:question id="1" question="What is the location of your dream vacation?"/>
     <rax-auth:question id="1017" question="What's your fathers name?"/>
</rax-auth:questions>

Example: Get questions response: JSON

{
  "RAX-AUTH:questions": [
    {
            "id": "6",
            "question": "What is your pass phrase?"
        },
        {
            "id": "5",
            "question": "Who let the dogs out?"
        },
        {
            "id": "4",
            "question": "What is your favorite color?"
        },
        {
            "id": "3",
            "question": "What is your favorite book?"
        },
        {
            "id": "2",
            "question": "Where is the best place to live?"
        },
        {
            "id": "1",
            "question": "What is the location of your dream vacation?"
        }
  ]
}