# 2 duplicated sets of secrets

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/2-duplicated-sets-of-secrets/14757>\
**Category:** Percona Operator for MongoDB\
**Created:** [March 15, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/2-duplicated-sets-of-secrets/14757 "2022-03-15T21:29:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![A\_Niu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/a_niu/32/5518_2.png) [@A\_Niu](https://forums.percona.com/u/A_Niu)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/2-duplicated-sets-of-secrets/14757/1 "2022-03-15T21:29:13Z")

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Hello there,  
I just noticed there are 2 duplicated sets of secrets in percona mongodb cluster, could anyone please tell me the reason?

 ![image (7)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/2X/3/30f60942afc0f9599dfe1b1c5fc9b4088859a012.png)

thanks,  
Arthur

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**Author:** ![Ege\_Gunes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ege_gunes/32/4595_2.png) [@Ege\_Gunes](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ege_Gunes)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/2-duplicated-sets-of-secrets/14757/2 "2022-03-16T06:22:45Z")

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Hi Arthur,

The operator allows you to rotate credentials by patching the users secret (`mongo-ods-secrets` in your case, `spec.secrets.users` in general). If you update all the passwords, the operator would fail to connect to mongodb if it uses the user facing secret. Therefore it creates an internal secret to use for its own connections and keep these two secrets in sync.

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**Author:** ![A\_Niu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/a_niu/32/5518_2.png) [@A\_Niu](https://forums.percona.com/u/A_Niu)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/2-duplicated-sets-of-secrets/14757/3 "2022-03-16T17:27:34Z")

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Hello Ege,

Thanks for your clarification.

Arthur