Update to Meeting and Webinar Password Account Settings
By: Tim Slagle
Tags: Developer, Marketplaces, Zoom, Security

A few examples:

You create a meeting/webinar with a password using the Zoom API

In this case, nothing changes. You are already familiar with creating meetings with passwords, and your payload would return with a password as part of the join URL and as a part of the payload object.

Take a look:



“uuid”: “+zA4sJrsCpPSFOw==”,

“id”: 70017,

“host_id”: “M — AC7MZ1Q”,

“topic”: “Test Meeting With Password”,

“type”: 2,

“status”: “waiting”,

“start_time”: “2019–12–25T06:00:00Z”,

“duration”: 60,

“timezone”: “Pacific/Midway”,

“created_at”: “2019–09–09T22:01:36Z”,

“start_url”: “

“join_url”: “

“password”: “TestPass”,

“h323_password”: “XXX”,

“pstn_password”: “XXX”,

“encrypted_password”: “Y2I0ZnJtnhRdz09”, //encrypted password for building join_url manually

“settings”: {}

} “uuid”: “+zA4sJrsCpPSFOw==”,“id”: 70017,“host_id”: “M — AC7MZ1Q”,“topic”: “Test Meeting With Password”,“type”: 2,“status”: “waiting”,“start_time”: “2019–12–25T06:00:00Z”,“duration”: 60,“timezone”: “Pacific/Midway”,“created_at”: “2019–09–09T22:01:36Z”,“start_url”: “ https://zoom.us/s/700783617?zak=XXX ",“join_url”: “ https://zoom.us/j/700783617?pwd=Y2I0ZnJtnhRdz09 ", //join_url contains the password as a query param“password”: “TestPass”,“h323_password”: “XXX”,“pstn_password”: “XXX”,“encrypted_password”: “Y2I0ZnJtnhRdz09”, //encrypted password for building join_url manually“settings”: {}

2. You create a meeting with no password using our API.

In this case, you will see that a password (a six-digit numeric code) is automatically generated for the meeting. This is where you will need to look out for the new password if you are doing a manual join instead of using the join_url. If you are using the join_url, then nothing will change for you.

Here is another example payload (notice it is almost identical to the last payload):



"uuid": "+zA4sJrsCpPSFOw==",

"id": 70017,

"host_id": "M - AC7MZ1Q",

"topic": "Test Meeting Without Password",

"type": 2,

"status": "waiting",

"start_time": "2019–12–25T06:00:00Z",

"duration": 60,

"timezone": "Pacific/Midway",

"created_at": "2019–09–09T22:01:36Z",

"start_url": "

"join_url": "

"password": "254894", //auto generated password

"h323_password": "12345", //auto generated password

"pstn_password": "12345", //auto generated password

"encrypted_password": "Y2I0ZnJtnhRdz09", //encrypted password for building join_url manually

"settings": {}

} "uuid": "+zA4sJrsCpPSFOw==","id": 70017,"host_id": "M - AC7MZ1Q","topic": "Test Meeting Without Password","type": 2,"status": "waiting","start_time": "2019–12–25T06:00:00Z","duration": 60,"timezone": "Pacific/Midway","created_at": "2019–09–09T22:01:36Z","start_url": " https://zoom.us/s/700783617?zak=XXX ","join_url": " https://zoom.us/j/700783617?pwd=Y2I0ZnJtnhRdz09 ", //join_url contains the password as a query param"password": "254894", //auto generated password"h323_password": "12345", //auto generated password"pstn_password": "12345", //auto generated password"encrypted_password": "Y2I0ZnJtnhRdz09", //encrypted password for building join_url manually"settings": {}

What if you, or your customers, don’t want this change?

We thought of this too! Every account will have a banner displayed letting account owners/admins know about the change and when it will take effect for them. This banner will allow you to opt-out of this change.

Example of banner found on every Zoom account

If you click the link in the banner, you will be able to decline or approve the change.

For more information about this change, you can also visit our support article. This will give you a better overview of how this change works and how it may affect you and your users.