---
title: Manage system passwords
description: At the end of the Elastic Cloud Enterprise installation process on the first host, you are provided with the URL and user credentials for the administration...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/deploy-manage/users-roles/cloud-enterprise-orchestrator/manage-system-passwords
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Enterprise
---

# Manage system passwords
At the end of the Elastic Cloud Enterprise installation process on the first host, you are provided with the URL and user credentials for the administration console users `admin` and `readonly`. You use this information to log into the Cloud UI. Both users can access all parts of the Cloud UI, but only the `admin` user can make changes. We recommend that you keep this information secure.

## Retrieve user passwords

If you need to retrieve the system passwords at a later point, you can issue one of the following commands from the first host you installed on (requires that you have [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/) installed).
If you specified a different host storage path during installation, change `/mnt/data/elastic` to the path your installation is using. These commands require that the secrets file exists on the host where you run the command. (Don’t have a secrets file? You can also [reset the passwords](#ece-reset-passwords).)
To retrieve the password for the `admin` user:
```sh
jq -r '.adminconsole_root_password' /mnt/data/elastic/bootstrap-state/bootstrap-secrets.json
```

To retrieve the password for the `readonly` user:
```sh
jq -r '.adminconsole_readonly_password' /mnt/data/elastic/bootstrap-state/bootstrap-secrets.json
```

You  access the Cloud UI on port 12400 or port 12443 at IP address of the first host you installed on ([https://192.168.50.10:12443](https://192.168.50.10:12443), for example).

## Reset user passwords

You might need to reset the Cloud UI passwords for one of the following reasons:
- To change the passwords for the `admin` and `readonly` users after installing Elastic Cloud Enterprise or periodically as part of your standard operating procedures.
- To reset passwords if you think they might have become compromised.

The passwords for these users are stored in `/mnt/data/elastic/bootstrap-state/bootstrap-secrets.json` along with other secrets (unless you specified a different host storage path).
To reset the password for the user `admim` on the administration console based on the secrets in `/mnt/data/elastic/bootstrap-state/bootstrap-secrets.json`:
```sh
bash elastic-cloud-enterprise.sh reset-adminconsole-password --user admin
```

To reset the password for the `admin` user if no secrets file exists:
```sh
bash elastic-cloud-enterprise.sh reset-adminconsole-password
```

For additional usage examples, check [`elastic-cloud-enterprise.sh reset-adminconsole-password` Reference](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/cloud/tree/master/reference/cloud-enterprise/ece-installation-script-reset).