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# 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.

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

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* Untar backup file

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```bash
tar -xf <back_up_file>

Ex: tar -xf airctl_state.tar.gz
```

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* Change directory to mongo

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{% tab title="Bash" %}

```bash
cd mongo
```

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* Get admin\_pass from `du_data.json`

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```bash
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",
```

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* Get the Password from `secrets.json`

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{% tab title="Bash" %}

```bash
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
        }
}
```

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* Compare passwords.


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