Change Bucket Password
This article explains how to change the read/write passwords for a given bucket and BucketFS.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this procedure.
Procedure
This procedure is carried out using ConfD.
The following examples use ConfD through the command-line tool confd_client, which is available on all database nodes. For more information, see ConfD.
Placeholder values are indicated with UPPERCASE characters. Replace the placeholders with your own values.
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Connect to EXAClusterOS (COS) on the cluster using
c4 connect -t <DEPLOYMENT>[.<NODE>]/cos
. For example:If you do not specify a node, c4 will connect to the first active node in the deployment.
For more information about how to use
c4 connect
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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:
confd_client bucket_modify bucket_name: BUCKET_NAME bucketfs_name: BUCKETFS_NAME public: False read_password: PASSWORD write_password: PASSWORD
Save the passwords in a secure location.
Verification
You can use curl to perform a test read and write using the new passwords. For more details, see Manage Buckets and Files in BucketFS.