Change the Node Admin Password

Open a command line window.

Make the following API call.

curl --request POST \ --url https://<SERVER>:<PORT>/users/setpw \ --header 'Remote-Database-Authorization: <Base64-DB-SECRET>' \ --header 'content-type: application/json' \ --data '{ "id": "<userName>", "password": "<newPassword>"}'

Parameter	Description
Server	The hostname or IP address of the database server node.
Port	The port through which you are connecting. Do not include the http or https prefix.
Remote-Database-Authorization	The header you need to provide to circumvent user authentication.
DB-SECRET	The 10-character string that you defined when you installed the main database server. When sending the API call, make sure that the string you insert is encoded as base-64.
id	The name of the user whose password you want to change.
password	The new password for the admin user.