# User name and password gets reset on restart pod
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287
**Category:** General
**Created:** [31 May 2022 09:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287 "2022-05-31T09:16:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@An-ji](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/An-ji)
#### Post date: [31 May 2022 09:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/1 "2022-05-31T09:16:44Z")
Hi,
I'm using few nodes like email, azure storage and sql node where i need to set user name and passwords, whenever there is restart of pod on instance these properties gets reset and I will need to enter manually.
Please suggest how can I save those credentials in flow file or any other approach so that it does not gets reset, since it's blocker for my flows.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [1 June 2022 20:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/2 "2022-06-01T20:04:23Z")
I’m not that familiar with liber eyes but I assume you must set up some sort of long term storage and use that for storing your flows so that when you restart they get reloaded correctly.
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### Author:  [@An-ji](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/An-ji)
#### Post date: [2 June 2022 02:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/3 "2022-06-02T02:34:51Z")
Hi, I'm using azure blob storage to store flow file however when I restart node red in local it works fine and credentials doesn't get reset, but on server it's not keeping the credentials
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### Author:  [@An-ji](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/An-ji)
#### Post date: [2 June 2022 11:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/4 "2022-06-02T11:06:55Z")
Hi dceejay,
Can you please help me how can I set flows\_cred.json file path in settings file we have key as flowFile for flows.json but not for cred file
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [2 June 2022 15:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/5 "2022-06-02T15:58:26Z")
the creds file will be written to the same directory as the flow file
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### Author:  [@lu4t](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lu4t)
#### Post date: [2 June 2022 17:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/6 "2022-06-02T17:14:52Z")
this will always happen UNLESS you mount a persistent volume on your pod.
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### Author:  [@An-ji](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/An-ji)
#### Post date: [3 June 2022 05:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/7 "2022-06-03T05:03:08Z")
yes I've a mount directory for flow file and defined mount directory path but same way i want to give path for credential file
can you please help me, where can I give path for credential file just like flow file in settings file
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### Author:  [@An-ji](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/An-ji)
#### Post date: [3 June 2022 05:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/8 "2022-06-03T05:13:21Z")
I gave path flow file also place the creds file in same location but still credentials are not added back
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### Author:  [@lu4t](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lu4t)
#### Post date: [3 June 2022 06:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/9 "2022-06-03T06:18:26Z")
There's no option on the settings.js AFAIK to define a path for the creds file.
Anyhow, adding a path there wont prevent you from losing the flow and creds files on a pod restart; can you attach the yaml definition of the pod?
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [4 June 2022 01:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/10 "2022-06-04T01:12:16Z")
You are going to need to add a `credentialSecret` entry to the `settings.js` file and have this file persisted as well.
The problem you will be hitting is that by default on startup Node-RED will generate a random key to encrypt the flows\_cred.json file with.
When you restart if you haven't added a fixed `credentialSecret`to the `settings.js` file it will generate a new one, which it will not be able to use to decrypt your old `flows_cred.json` file. So it will wipe all the creds out and start again.
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### Author:  [@An-ji](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/An-ji)
#### Post date: [28 June 2022 12:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/11 "2022-06-28T12:07:57Z")
Hi, I've done configuration in yaml file to copy cred file after pod restart now I'm not loosing the creds but not able to deploy flow and flows\_cred.json.$$$ is getting generated, gettting below error
Error saving flows: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, rename 'flows\_cred.json.$$$' -\> 'flows\_cred.json
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [28 June 2022 21:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/12 "2022-06-28T21:14:21Z")
You can not write to files that are mounted onto pods as credentials or ConfigMaps, they are mounted as read-only
You will do much better using a database plugin to store flows/creds/settings
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [27 August 2022 21:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-name-and-password-gets-reset-on-restart-pod/63287/13 "2022-08-27T21:14:34Z")
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