# pg\_admin\_password with external database

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/pg-admin-password-with-external-database/31611>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pg-admin-password-with-external-database/31611 "2019-11-06T14:40:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nuno\_Jordao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Nuno\_Jordao](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nuno_Jordao)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pg-admin-password-with-external-database/31611/1 "2019-11-06T14:40:09Z")

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Hello,

I am using AWX 6.1.0 with an external Postgres database and planing to upgrade it.  
However I noticed that version 8.0.0 introduced a new configuration parameter pg\_admin\_password which I dont know what to do with it.  
As said above, I use an external database and the admin is not accessible remotely, nor I think is a good security practice to make it accessible remotely.  
I tried to find more information regarding this parameter and its use with external databases, but I couldn’t find much. I was hoping you could help me geting some directions.

Regards,

Nuno Jordão

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**Author:** ![David\_Maple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@David\_Maple](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Maple)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pg-admin-password-with-external-database/31611/2 "2019-11-06T15:42:59Z")

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I have the same situation, but the admin password is only used for the containerized DB, so I just set it to the value of pg\_password to keep it from complaining about not being set in AWX 9.0.0, where they removed the default.

Dave