--- Title: Update admin credentials for Active-Active databases alwaysopen: false categories: - docs - operate - rs description: Update admin credentials for Active-Active databases. linkTitle: Update Active-Active admin credentials weight: 90 --- Active-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. {{}} Do not perform any management operations on the databases until these steps are complete. {{}} To update the administrator password on a cluster with Active-Active databases: 1. From the user management page, update the administrator user password on the clusters you want to update. 1. Run [`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: ```sh crdb-cli crdb list ``` Example output: ```sh CRDB-GUID NAME REPL-ID FQDN 4053a0dd-a4a5-4f38-b135-75b7a2dc7331 my-aa-db 1 fqdn1.example.com 4053a0dd-a4a5-4f38-b135-75b7a2dc7331 my-aa-db 2 fqdn2.example.com ``` 1. Update the Active-Active database credentials using the [`crdb-cli crdb update`]({{< relref "/operate/rs/references/cli-utilities/crdb-cli/crdb/update" >}}) command: ```sh crdb-cli crdb update \ --crdb-guid \ --credentials id=,username=,password= \ --credentials id=,username=,password= \ --force ``` Replace the following values: - ``: The `CRDB-GUID` from the `crdb-cli crdb list` output - ``: The administrator username for the clusters - `` and ``: The `REPL-ID` for the corresponding FQDNs - `` and ``: The current administrator passwords for each cluster