How to Prevent Google Workspace Users From Changing Their Passwords Themselves

Quick and easy-to-follow guide for Google Workspace administrators

If you’d like to prevent Google Workspace users from changing their password on their own, you can follow these steps.

When to prevent users from changing their passwords

When you want to minimize the odds of users getting hacked
When you would like to keep passwords completely under admin control

How to prevent Google Workspace users from changing their passwords step-by-step with images

Step 1

Go to the Admin console and click the Security icon.

Step 2

Select Set up single sign-on (SSO) with a third party IdP.

Step 3

Do not check the box Setup SSO with third-party identity provider.

Just add a website page address to the Change password URL field, then click SAVE.

If any user tries changing their password through their own account settings at https://myaccount.google.com/ they will be redirected to the web page you added.

Note that after clicking SAVE, it can take up to 24 hours for the changes to take effect.

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