# Authentication on a cluster, secure credentials with Manager

**URL:** https://forum.scylladb.com/t/authentication-on-a-cluster-secure-credentials-with-manager/1473
**Category:** ScyllaDB
**Tags:** scylla-manager, authentication
**Created:** [April 9, 2024, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/authentication-on-a-cluster-secure-credentials-with-manager/1473 "2024-04-09T11:53:35Z")
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### Author: ![Guy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/guy/32/9_2.png) [@Guy](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/Guy)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2024, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/authentication-on-a-cluster-secure-credentials-with-manager/1473/1 "2024-04-09T11:53:35Z")

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> [**Originally from the User Slack**](https://scylladb-users.slack.com/)
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> ![Jatt_Singh](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/1X/15f3911dcb403c98063cacc66be2df4b09254a46.png) **@Jatt\_Singh:** Hi,  
> if we enable authentication on scylla cluster then we also need to pass credentials in scylla-manager
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> ```auto
> # Database credentials.
> # user: user
> # password: password
> 
> ```
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> so is there any way to secure this credentials?
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> ![Felipe_Cardeneti_Mendes](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/1X/233a9d524fbc97e39f08633c16b3dd2575d1d1f4.jpeg) **@Felipe\_Cardeneti\_Mendes:** you can provide a user cert and key and require the server to reject incoming requests without a trusted cert.
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> Keep in mind tho, your manager backend should be just for the manager itself, so hardening it won’t really protect (nor expose) anything