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Thomson Mathew
Thomson Mathew

Reputation: 439

Keycloak admin console - invalid username or password

I have keycloak standalone running in ubuntu and I configured postgre for database. Added a new user using add-user-keycloak.sh as below

./add-user-keycloak.sh -r master -u admin -p pa$$word

The above command says

Added 'admin' to '/opt/keycloak-15.0.2/standalone/configuration/keycloak-add-user.json', restart server to load user

I am not sure why its says adding user to this json file when I have the database configured. Or is that normal ? Because when I checked my database I could see a new row is added with admin in user_entity table. Tried to create coupe of users using same above method but I still get "invalid username or password" error when I try to logging to admin console. I am accessing the keayloak remotely. Not sure what I am missing. A help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6195

Answers (1)

Jan Garaj
Jan Garaj

Reputation: 28656

I would say your expectation that password pa$$word is configured for admin user is wrong. Problem is $$, which have special meaning (it depends on used shell), see example from my shell:

# echo "pa$$word"
pa4877word

BTW: $$ returns the process ID of the shell you are in

So use command in the format which will intepred pa$$word as pa$$word and not as pa<shell pid>word:

./add-user-keycloak.sh -r master -u admin -p 'pa$$word'

and then you can be sure, that you have configured pa$$word correctly.

Upvotes: 1

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