{
  "id": "default-user",
  "title": "Manage default user",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/8.0/security/access-control/manage-users/default-user/",
  "summary": "Manage a database's default user.",
  "content": "\nWhen you [create a database](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/create), default user database access is enabled by default (**Unauthenticated access** is selected). This gives the default user full access to the database and enables compatibility with versions of Redis before Redis 6.\n\nSelect **Password-only authentication**, then enter and confirm a default database password to require authentication for connections to the database.\n\n![images/rs/screenshots/databases/security-access-control-password-only.png](https://redis.io/docs/latest/images/rs/screenshots/databases/security-access-control-password-only.png)\n\n## Authenticate as default user\n\nWhen you configure a password for your database, all connections to the database must authenticate using the [AUTH](https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/auth) command. See Redis security's [authentication](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/security/#authentication) section for more information.\n\n```sh\nAUTH \u003cdefault-database-password\u003e\n```\n\n## Change default database password\n\nTo change the default user's password:\n\n1. From the database's **Security** tab, select **Edit**.\n\n1. In the **Access Control** section, select **Password-only authentication** as the **Access method**.\n\n1. Enter and re-enter the new password.\n\n1. Select **Save**.\n\n## Deactivate default user\n\nIf you set up [role-based access control](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/security/access-control) with [access control lists](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/security/access-control/create-db-roles) (ACLs) for your database and don't require backwards compatibility with versions earlier than Redis 6, you can [deactivate the default user](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/security/access-control/manage-users/default-user).\n\n\n- Before you deactivate default user access, make sure the role associated with the database is [assigned to a user](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/security/access-control/create-users). Otherwise, the database will be inaccessible.\n\n- If you enabled the default database password during the creation of an [Active-Active database](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/active-active), you should not turn off the default database password because it could prevent the removal of participating database instances.\n\n\nTo deactivate the default user:\n\n1. From the database's **Security** tab, select **Edit**.\n\n1. In the **Access Control** section, select **Using ACL only** as the **Access method**.\n\n    ![images/rs/screenshots/databases/security-access-control-acl-only.png](https://redis.io/docs/latest/images/rs/screenshots/databases/security-access-control-acl-only.png)\n\n1. Choose at least one role and Redis ACL to access the database.\n\n1. Select **Save**.\n",
  "tags": ["docs","operate","rs"],
  "last_updated": "2026-07-23T12:00:25-05:00"
}