This is how most professionals secure Selenium Grid. You do not change Selenium; you put a web server (like Nginx or Apache) in front of it.
| Claim | Reality | |-------|---------| | Default user is admin , password admin | ❌ False | | Default user is selenium , password selenium | ❌ False | | If you don’t set a password, it uses guest / guest | ❌ False | | Selenium Grid 4 has admin / admin out of the box | ❌ False – auth disabled by default | selenium grid default password
Selenium Grid Extras is an older wrapper around Selenium Grid 3. This is how most professionals secure Selenium Grid
However, later that day, John encountered another engineer, Emily, who was setting up a similar grid on a different part of their infrastructure. She mentioned she was using an older version of Selenium Grid and was having trouble with the web UI, complaining about not being able to log in. However, later that day, John encountered another engineer,
If you are using (like selenium/standalone-chrome or selenium/video ), and you are prompted for a password—typically when trying to access the LiveView (VNC) or video stream—the default password is: Password: secret