How to start and stop redis service with authentication?

Question

I've set a password for my Redis server and when I try to restart the Redis server with sudo service redis_6379 restart then I get the following error message:

NOAUTH Authentication required.

How can I pass my password through the restart command?

The Redis version is 3.0.3.

Yep - this is a known issue :( my PR is waiting for merge: https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/2069 — Itamar Haber, Aug 23 '15 at 13:50

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '15 at 09:30

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You could modify your init.d/redis_6379 script and use the -a parameter of redis-cli to specify the password:

CLIEXEC="/usr/local/bin/redis-cli -a your_secret"

answered Aug 23 '15 at 09:30

Darin Dimitrov

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More precisely the solution was this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28658706/241739 You only need a password for stopping the server, not for starting. – Murdoch Aug 23 '15 at 11:00

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '15 at 06:01

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redis-cli connect to your server and authenticate yourself.

$ redis-cli -a serverpassword
$ shutdown
$ quit

answered Aug 24 '15 at 06:01

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How to start and stop redis service with authentication?

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