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# Update username and password

If you enabled HTTP digest authentication when you created the stream, you can rotate the authentication keys without affecting the existing live stream.

You can make these changes when you edit streams.

1. From the **Ingest authentication**, select the **Digest** option.

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2. Click **Add credential**.

3. Select one of the Hash algorithms:
   * **SHA256**
   * **SHA512\_256**
   * **SHA512**
   * **MD5**

4. Enter a username.\
   The username must contain at least 3 characters.

5. Enter a password.\
   The password must match the following criteria:
   * must be between 4 and 50 characters,
   * contain at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number, and one special character.

6. Confirm password.

7. Click **Save**.

# Sub pages

* [Delete a credential](https://techdocs.akamai.com/msl5-harmonic/docs/delete-a-credential.md)

# Sibling pages

* [Create an MSL5 stream](https://techdocs.akamai.com/msl5-harmonic/docs/create-msl5-stream.md)
* [Set up the MSL5 origin](https://techdocs.akamai.com/msl5-harmonic/docs/set-up-the-msl5-origin.md)
* [Generate publish and playback URLs](https://techdocs.akamai.com/msl5-harmonic/docs/generate-publish-and-playback-urls.md)
* [Edit and delete streams](https://techdocs.akamai.com/msl5-harmonic/docs/edit-and-delete-streams.md)
* [Export storage](https://techdocs.akamai.com/msl5-harmonic/docs/export-storage.md)
* [Access Management](https://techdocs.akamai.com/msl5-harmonic/docs/access-management.md)
* [Documentation](https://techdocs.akamai.com/msl5-harmonic/docs/documentation.md)