How to Compare the Admin Password in the Mongo Database to the one in the Backup?

Problem

How to Compare the Admin Password in the Mongo Database to the one in the backup?

Environment

  • Platform9 Edge Cloud - v5.3 (LTS1)

Procedure

  • Note the password from the get-cred command. This command fetched the username and password from MongoDB.

/opt/pf9/airctl/airctl get-creds --config /opt/pf9/airctl/conf/airctl-config.yaml

  • Untar backup file

tar -xf <back_up_file>

Ex: tar -xf airctl_state.tar.gz

  • Change directory to mongo

cd mongo

  • Get admin_pass from du_data.json

vi du_data.json #search for "admin_pass" and make a note of admin_pass value

Ex:
"passwords": {
"admin_pass": "airctl-1-33xxx54-31-pf9-localnet-admin_pass",

  • Get the Password from secrets.json

vi secrets.json #search for admin_pass value copied in previous step

Ex:
{
"_id": {
"$oid": "66bdfe9xxxxxxx1262d9f"
},
"tag": "airctl-1-33xxx54-31-pf9-localnet-admin_pass",
"context": "customer",
"driver": "null",
"record": {
"HYAT!": "c194ZxxxRaxxCk",
"binary": false
}
}

  • Compare passwords.


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