Versions (relevant - OpenSearch/Dashboard/Server OS/Browser): 2.2.0 Describe the issue: We are managing securityplugin through ansible and we are not using securityadmin script to making any configuration change. Everything is working as expected. But while changing the default password for admin…

When modifying the admin password I believe you have to also set: reserved: false hidden: false

Thanks @jasonrojas for your suggestion. But “reserved” and “hidden” doesn’t work with api. As I mentioned we are maintaining through ansible.

The OpenSearch developers has taken the active decision to make it hard to change the default admin password in the default configuration. Yes, it’s broken by design and I dare to say one of the [worst] decisions I’ve seen in software development (how to maximize the number of installations with ad…

Additionally - securityadmin.sh does allow flags to backup/export the current databses of users etc so if you do have anything you want to keep you can go that route.

Thanks @jasonrojas @albgus for your input. I just copied internal_users.yaml file with “reserved: false” (for Admin user) on /tmp folder and ran the security script to disable read-only access. And then it’s allow me to change default admin password.

BTW is there any mechanism that we can apply to change the admin password periodically like in every month without any manual intervention. Please suggest.

@kksaha @jasonrojas I am using OpenSearch helm chart to install OpenSearch and also modified values.yaml file to change admin password for OpenSearch and OpenSearch dashboard but still its now working . Could you please guide me to fix this issue . enabled: true path: "/usr/share/opensearch/c…

@Ashutosh You can try the following approach if the above-mentioned one doesn’t work. [image] How to Default Password Reset Security I tried to change the password in three ways, but all failed. First attempt Viewed the document and changed the administrator password. A…

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kksaha August 7, 2023, 8:22am 9

@Ashutosh You can try the following approach if the above-mentioned one doesn’t work.

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