Redis AUTH command in Python

This worked great for me.

redis_db = redis.StrictRedis(host="localhost", port=6379, db=0, password='yourPassword')

If you have Redis running on a different server, you have to remember to add bind 0.0.0.0 after bind 127.0.0.1 in the config (/etc/redis/redis.conf). On Ubuntu this should only output one line with 0.0.0.0:

sudo netstat -lnp | grep redis

My result for netstat:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6379            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      6089/redis-server 0

Thanks to the hints from the comments. I found the answer from https://redis-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.

It says

class redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0, password=None, socket_timeout=None, connection_pool=None, charset='utf-8', errors='strict', unix_socket_path=None)

So AUTH is in fact password passed by keyword argument.

You need to use password instead of AUTH:

Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov  6 2016, 00:28:07)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import redis
>>> r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost',port=6379,db=0,password='Prabhat')
>>> print(r)
Redis<ConnectionPool<Connection<host=localhost,port=6379,db=0>>>
>>>```