The SEQ_FIRSTRUN_ADMINPASSWORDHASH is a secure way of specifying a default administrator password. It's a strong, salted, cryptographic hash, so including directly in scripts and configuration files is relatively safe.
But, creating the hash value is slightly more effort than simply specifying a default password, leading many to skip this step, start Seq in default open mode, and then set a password via the UI.
This latter flow is undesirable; we'll provide a plain text SEQ_FIRSTRUN_ADMINPASSWORD alternative environment variable that can be used as an easier option when there's no risk that the password will be exposed.
Initializing a new Seq instance using this setting will cause the admin account's "must change password" flag to be set, which is not the case when using the HASH variant.
The
SEQ_FIRSTRUN_ADMINPASSWORDHASHis a secure way of specifying a default administrator password. It's a strong, salted, cryptographic hash, so including directly in scripts and configuration files is relatively safe.But, creating the hash value is slightly more effort than simply specifying a default password, leading many to skip this step, start Seq in default open mode, and then set a password via the UI.
This latter flow is undesirable; we'll provide a plain text
SEQ_FIRSTRUN_ADMINPASSWORDalternative environment variable that can be used as an easier option when there's no risk that the password will be exposed.Initializing a new Seq instance using this setting will cause the admin account's "must change password" flag to be set, which is not the case when using the
HASHvariant.