diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 61256cb45..f6df56cd1 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ This package uses the [Gradle](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/usergui
 ### Setup
 
 Currently, for the alpha development-only source code release, we support installing and running the RCA framework only on OpenSearch Docker containers.
+
+**NOTE:** If planning to use this framework with security plugin, the demo configuration requires an initial admin password to be set. You can set this by creating a .env file next to the docker compose and add following line to it:
+`OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD=<your-password>`
+There is a password validation in place, which requires a strong password.
   
 You can use the packaged Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml files [here](./docker) to spin up a cluster with RCA framework installed.
   
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.cluster.yml b/docker/docker-compose.cluster.yml
index 2c9717097..aeb09f4d6 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose.cluster.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.cluster.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ services:
       - cluster.initial_cluster_manager_nodes=opensearch1
       - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
       - "OPENSEARCH_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
+      - "OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD}"
   opensearch2:
     environment:
       - node.name=opensearch2
@@ -22,3 +23,4 @@ services:
       - cluster.initial_cluster_manager_nodes=opensearch1
       - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
       - "OPENSEARCH_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
+      - "OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD}"
diff --git a/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh b/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
index db8d89948..434f74e78 100755
--- a/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ fi
 if [[ -d "/usr/share/opensearch/plugins/opensearch_security" ]]; then
     # Install Demo certificates for Security Plugin and update the opensearch.yml
     # file to use those certificates.
-    /usr/share/opensearch/plugins/opensearch_security/tools/install_demo_configuration.sh -y -i -s
+    /usr/share/opensearch/plugins/opensearch_security/tools/install_demo_configuration.sh -y -i -s || exit 1
 fi
 
 if [[ -d "/usr/share/opensearch/plugins/opensearch-performance-analyzer" ]]; then