Openmetadata Basic Authentication does not allow to set the admin passwords since PR11463 about openmetadata

[harshach]

cc @akash-jain-10 @mohityadav766

[harshach]

@przemslys any reason you want to control this via config rather use the defautl admin/admin to reset the password through the UI?

[przemslys]

hi @harshach there are few reasons:

1. the documentation says I can set those passwords up in the envvar and I cannot find any release notes claiming this feature was intentionally removed;
2. working on k8s means that the Pods (think of them as of a brand new VMs with Openmetadata that do not have persitant memory between restarts) are constantly and randomly restarted, rendering any changes "clicked out" by the Openmetadata admin useless.
3. the currently running approach reqiures a close cooperation between DevOps that deploys the OMD and the admin of OMD, who must act quickily to change the password manually before other users figure the passwords out...
4. if the OMD worked as described in the documentation, we could store the contents of the envvar (so a list of pairs of admin user name and their passwords) as a k8s secret, allowing for a precise and secure way of passing the admin credentials from DevOps to OMD admin; Instead, everyone (all parties involved including DevOps, people that are supposed to work as OMD admins and simple users, even readers of this publicly hosted discussion) knows the admin password - I do not like that...

I mean we eventually will find some workaround for this bug but if the removal of the functionality was indeed done on purpose, please adjust the documentation so in the future such problems would be avoided. If it was removed accidently I humbly ask for the reimplementation of the functionality.

Kind Regards