{
  "id": "active-active-admin-credentials",
  "title": "Update admin credentials for Active-Active databases",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/8.0/security/access-control/manage-passwords/active-active-admin-credentials/",
  "summary": "Update admin credentials for Active-Active databases.",
  "content": "\nActive-Active databases use administrator credentials to manage operations. When you change the administrator password on clusters with Active-Active databases, you must update the Active-Active database configuration to prevent authentication failures during Active-Active management operations.\n\n\nDo not perform any management operations on the databases until these steps are complete.\n\n\nTo update the administrator password on a cluster with Active-Active databases:\n\n1. From the user management page, update the administrator user password on the clusters you want to update.\n\n1. Run [`crdb-cli crdb list`](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/references/cli-utilities/crdb-cli/crdb/list) to find the `CRDB-GUID` that uniquely identifies each Active-Active database and the fully qualified domain names (`FQDN`) of each participating cluster:\n\n    ```sh\n    crdb-cli crdb list\n    ```\n\n    Example output:\n\n    ```sh\n    CRDB-GUID                             NAME        REPL-ID  FQDN\n    4053a0dd-a4a5-4f38-b135-75b7a2dc7331  my-aa-db    1        fqdn1.example.com\n    4053a0dd-a4a5-4f38-b135-75b7a2dc7331  my-aa-db    2        fqdn2.example.com\n    ```\n\n1. Update the Active-Active database credentials using the [`crdb-cli crdb update`](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/references/cli-utilities/crdb-cli/crdb/update) command:\n\n    ```sh\n    crdb-cli crdb update \\\n      --crdb-guid \u003cCRDB-GUID\u003e \\\n      --credentials id=\u003cREPL-ID-1\u003e,username=\u003cadmin-username\u003e,password=\u003cFQDN-1-password\u003e \\\n      --credentials id=\u003cREPL-ID-2\u003e,username=\u003cadmin-username\u003e,password=\u003cFQDN-2-password\u003e \\\n      --force\n    ```\n\n    Replace the following values:\n\n    - `\u003cCRDB-GUID\u003e`: The `CRDB-GUID` from the `crdb-cli crdb list` output\n\n    - `\u003cadmin-username\u003e`: The administrator username for the clusters\n\n    - `\u003cREPL-ID-1\u003e` and `\u003cREPL-ID-2\u003e`: The `REPL-ID` for the corresponding FQDNs\n\n    - `\u003cFQDN-1-password\u003e` and `\u003cFQDN-2-password\u003e`: The current administrator passwords for each cluster\n",
  "tags": ["docs","operate","rs"],
  "last_updated": "2026-07-23T12:05:56-05:00"
}