Change bucket password

Learn how to change the read/write passwords for a bucket in BucketFS.

In Exasol 2026.1.0 and later you can use Exasol Admin for this procedure. For earlier versions, you must use ConfD.

Prerequisites

  • The BucketFS service must be running.

  • To use Exasol Admin to add buckets, the Exasol Admin service must be enabled in your deployment. For more information, see Exasol Admin.

Procedure (Exasol Admin)

  1. Log in to Exasol Admin and go to the BucketFS page.

  2. Click on the  icon (pencil).

    edit selected bucket

  3. Change the password(s) as desired. To make the bucket publicly readable, disable require read password.

    The bucket name cannot be changed.

    edit bucket dialog

  4. Click on Save. The new passwords will be enabled immediately.

Procedure (command line)

The following examples use ConfD through the command-line tool confd_client, which is available on all database nodes. For more information, see ConfD.

  1. Connect to the cluster operating system (COS) using c4 connect -i PLAY_ID -s cos.

    Example:
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    ./c4 connect -i c3275f84 -s cos

    To find the play ID, you can use c4 ps.

    For more information about how to use c4 commands, see How to use c4.

  2. Use the ConfD job bucket_modify to change the read and/or write password for a given bucket in the given BucketFS service. The password can be entered in either plain-text or a base64-encoded string. For example:

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    confd_client bucket_modify bucket_name: BUCKET_NAME bucketfs_name: BUCKETFS_NAME public: False read_password: PASSWORD write_password: PASSWORD