How do I change the default admin password automatically?

Created by Steve Place, Modified on Wed, 20 Sep 2023 at 11:53 AM by Steve Place

By default, Stardog's `admin` user has a password of `admin`. Because this information is publicly available, this setup is insecure, and we strongly recommend you do not deploy Stardog in a production environment with the default password.


Changing the password manually is easy - just use `stardog-admin user passwd`. If you want to update it automatically, you can write a shell script that does this when you deploy Stardog. You can find an example of such a shell script at our publicly available Helm Charts here. A few notes on this:

  • You don't need to use Kubernetes/Helm for a script like this to work, but you will need some way of ensuring the script runs when you deploy Stardog.
  • The linked script reads the new password from the `values.yaml` file in our Helm Charts. If you are not using Stardog's Helm Charts, you'll need to supply the new password to the function via a different method.

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