Changing passwords

Set the Dashboard, SSH and IDE passwords through environment variables.

A password that you do not set is generated as a strong random secret. Set your own with Zato_Password before the container starts.

Set a password through an environment variable

Export Zato_Password before you start the container, and the value becomes the password of the Dashboard's admin user as well as the SSH, IDE and load balancer users:

export Zato_Password="<Your Password>"
sudo docker run -e Zato_Password=$Zato_Password ...

You can then log in to the Dashboard at http://localhost:8183 with the username admin and the password that you set.

To set each password individually, use the per-account variables - Zato_Dashboard_Password, Zato_SSH_Password and Zato_IDE_Password - all of them are in the environment variables reference.

In Docker Desktop, set the variable in the container's start form:

See also

PageWhat it covers
Security defaultsThe accounts that the passwords belong to
Environment variablesEvery password variable, with its default and scope
Dashboard authenticationHow people sign in with the password that you set

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