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Howdy. Am trying to untangle some password craziness we have with our FusionReactor config we have in our Lucee container.

We're setting a bunch of environment variables for the JVM FR uses, one of which is `fradminpassword` (<https://docs.fusion-reactor.com/Configuration/FusionReactor-System-Properties/>) Now I would have assumed that that is the admin password for the FR UI. But it's... not. That is set in `fusionreactor/conf/reactor.conf`. So what *is* that env var for?

Also the docs at <https://github.com/intergral/fusionreactor-docker/blob/master/coldfusion/README.md#building-this-image> talk about `FR_PASSWORD`. What's _that_ for?

My suspicion is that these are different mechanisms to get the same value in, and there's some unspoken pecking order.

Given we're putting that `reactor.conf` file into the file system of the container when we build the image, I presume we don't need to worry about the other two mechanisms for providing a pwd? Can I just get rid?

(it *seems* to work, but I'm not really a user of FusionReactor, so not sure if there's some idiosyncrasy I'm missing)

-Dfradminpassword={password] is one way of setting the password

you can also set it in the reactor.conf file
both of which will achieve the same thing

FR_PASSWORD is an environment variable you could pass into that Dockerfile to make it abit easeir

the -D will override the value in the reactor.conf

just use whichever option works best for you

My experience was that the value in `reactor.conf` won out over the other two.

I didn't even know that file existed and was going "howTF is it still remembering the old pwd???!?" until I guessed what that hash was in `reactor.conf`

Boy did I shout a lot of obscenities at that point, before just laughing at myself &amp; the coupla hours I'll never get back.