Update users

  • Explorer v1.11+
  • InfluxDB 3 Enterprise v3.12+

How you install Explorer depends on your InfluxDB 3 server

Starting with InfluxDB 3 Enterprise v3.11, Explorer is included with the server and runs as WebAssembly (WASM)–there’s no separate container to install. Docker is required for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise earlier than v3.11, and remains an option for later Enterprise releases. See Install Explorer to find the instructions for your server.

Administrators can change the roles of a user, edit a display name, and require a user to change their password in InfluxDB 3 Explorer.

You must have the Admin role to update a user.

Change the roles of a user

  1. Navigate to Security > Manage Users.
  2. In the Actions column, click the menu for the user, and then select Edit roles.
  3. Select the roles to assign to the user, and clear the roles to remove. The dialog displays the roles that the user has after you save.
  4. Click Save Roles.

The access of a user is the combination of all roles assigned to the user. If you clear every role, the user has only the basic permissions of the server until an administrator assigns roles again.

You can’t remove the Admin role from the only administrator

If only one user has the Admin role, Explorer doesn’t let you clear that role for the user. Assign the Admin role to another user first.

Edit a display name

The display name is the name that Explorer displays for a user.

  1. Navigate to Security > Manage Users.
  2. In the Actions column, click the menu for the user, and then select Edit display name.
  3. In the Display name field, enter the new display name. The display name can’t be empty.
  4. Click Save.

Require a password change

When a password might be exposed, or when you want a user to replace a password that you set, require the user to change their password.

  1. Navigate to Security > Manage Users.
  2. In the Actions column, click the menu for the user, and then select Require password change.
  3. In the confirmation dialog, click Require Change.

The status of the user changes to Change required. The next time the user signs in, Explorer requires them to set a new password. See Change a required password.

What a required password change doesn’t do

  • It doesn’t end the current sessions of the user. The user keeps access until they sign in again. To revoke access immediately, delete the user.
  • It doesn’t recover a forgotten password. The user needs their current password to set a new one.

Require password change isn’t available for a user that signs in with SSO only. The user doesn’t have a password.

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