Arangodb: "Please specify a password" in arangorestore

[arturasjurev]

my environment running ArangoDB

I'm using the latest ArangoDB of the respective release series:

• [ ] 2.8
• [ ] 3.0
• [ ] 3.1
• [ ] 3.2
• [x] 3.3
• [ ] self-compiled devel branch

Mode:

• [ ] Cluster
• [x] Single-Server

On this operating system:

• [ ] DCOS on
  
  
  
  • [ ] AWS
  
  
  • [ ] Azure
  
  
  • [x] own infrastructure
  
  
• [ ] Linux
  
  
  
  • [x] Debian .deb
  
  
  • [ ] Ubuntu .deb
  
  
  • [ ] SUSE .rpm
  
  
  • [ ] RedHat .rpm
  
  
  • [ ] Fedora .rpm
  
  
  • [ ] Gentoo
  
  
  • [ ] docker - official docker library
  
  
  • [ ] other:
  
  
• [ ] Windows, version:
• [ ] MacOS, version:

These are the steps to reproduce:
1) Command :
arangorestore --include-system-collections true --server.database $dbname --create-database true --input-directory $location

This is pretty small issue, but I couldn't find information on web on how to disable arango from asking for password while performing arangorestore. For every DB that is in backup, when restoring arango goes:

Restoring 10122927127318
Please specify a password: 

How can we prevent arango from asking for password while performing this action.

Thought option is authentication = false in arangod.conf , but this doesn't seem to work.

All help is appreciated !

[jsteemann]

Setting the option authentication = false in arangod.conf will disable authentication for the arangod server process. If this is what you want, it's fine, but be aware that the database server will then run without any authentication.
Additionally, you can set the option authentication = false in the config files of the client tools, e.g. arangorestore.conf. This will disable the password prompt for the client tool(s).
If the server still requires authentication (authentication = true in arangod.conf) but you do not want any password prompt, there is also the option to specify username and password for arangorestore as part of the invocating command, e.g.

arangorestore --server.username "$user" --server.password "$passwd" ...

Note that any of the configuration parameters can be passed on the command line or be used in config files, e.g. setting authentication = false in arangorestore.conf is the same as

arangorestore --server.authentication false```

[Simran-B]

If you use the default user root with an empty password, then --server.password "" should skip the password prompt.

[arturasjurev]

Thanks for the help !