# Gateway admin name and password

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-admin-name-and-password/64807>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-admin-name-and-password/64807 "2022-10-04T17:23:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-admin-name-and-password/64807/5 "2022-10-04T18:31:06Z")

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We decided a good strategy was to have the IdP do a soft failover to Ignition’s default provider and have the Administrator in there so that if anything happens the IdP we can still get in to fix it. It works.

See configuration details in the bottom of the post below.

> [@Locked out - urgent](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/locked-out-urgent/38943):
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> So I was messing around with Identity Providers… And somehow, I’m now locked out of the gateway. Is there a way to set the IDP back to default, through CLI or some xml config file on the gateway itself ? Please help… this is urgent

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