# New password or recover password
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-password-or-recover-password/262510
**Category:** Elastic Search
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-password-or-recover-password/262510 "2021-01-28T14:11:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Gustavo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gustavo)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-password-or-recover-password/262510/1 "2021-01-28T14:11:02Z")
How to set a new default password for enterprise search access; because the password I had generated is no longer working.
I tried the command
ENT\_SEARCH\_DEFAULT\_PASSWORD = 5eqbxcqczhxx1mgw bin/enterprise-search
and I was not successful
login default: enterprise\_search
vs: Elastic Enterprise Search Version 7.10.1
Elastic: 7.10.2
Ubuntu 20.04
Local server: localhost
Thanks
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### Author:  [@david.harsha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/david.harsha)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-password-or-recover-password/262510/2 "2021-01-28T20:25:55Z")
I think you're looking for `bin/enterprise-search --reset-auth`. Using `ENT_SEARCH_DEFAULT_PASSWORD` with that should work as well.
```auto
% bin/enterprise-search --help
Supported options:
--app-server - [Default command] Starts the application server
--enable-read-only-mode - Switches the deployment into a read-only mode
--disable-read-only-mode - Turns the read-only mode off for the deployment
--reset-install-lock - Removes a stale installation lock (use with caution)
--diagnostic-report - Generates a compressed, diagnostic log output for troubleshooting purposes
--migration-cleanup - Deletes unused indexes
--reset-auth - For standard authentication source:
* Resets login and password
For elasticsearch-native and elasticsearch-saml authentication sources:
* Removes the current role mappings
* All users will be granted the admin role
--version - Shows product and platform version information
--help - Useful information on how to run this script
```
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-password-or-recover-password/262510/3 "2021-01-28T20:26:19Z")
Hi @Gustavo!
> [@Gustavo](#):
>
> I tried the command
> ENT\_SEARCH\_DEFAULT\_PASSWORD = 5eqbxcqczhxx1mgw bin/enterprise-search
Careful, bash cares about whitespace. The correct command would be:
```auto
ENT_SEARCH_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=5eqbxcqczhxx1mgw bin/enterprise-search
```
with no spaces around the `=`.
> [@Gustavo](#):
>
> How to set a new default password for enterprise search access; because the password I had generated is no longer working.
No problem. The documentation for resetting the password is here: [Run Enterprise Search server using downloads (packages) | Enterprise Search documentation [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/installation.html#installation-password-reset)
You'll just want to do:
```auto
ENT_SEARCH_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=5eqbxcqczhxx1mgw bin/enterprise-search --reset-auth
```
Let us know if you have any other issues!
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### Author:  [@Gustavo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gustavo)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-password-or-recover-password/262510/4 "2021-01-29T12:59:58Z")
Thanks Sean\_Story and david.harsha
Reset-auth command worked perfectly ...
Thanks...
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-password-or-recover-password/262510/5 "2022-11-04T08:22:46Z")