Securing Starter Deployments

Assuming you have enabled authentication in your Starter deployment (using ), by defaultthe root user will be created with an empty password.

In case you would like to automate the root password change, you might use the —javascript.execute-string option of the arangosh binary, e.g.:

If your Starter deployment has authentication turned off, it is suggested toturn it on using a JWT secret file. For more information on this topic, pleaserefer to the Starter page.