diff --git a/AppController/djinn.rb b/AppController/djinn.rb
index b9daa25b97..217d533fed 100644
--- a/AppController/djinn.rb
+++ b/AppController/djinn.rb
@@ -3304,7 +3304,7 @@ def change_job()
     maybe_start_taskqueue_worker("apichecker")
 
     if my_node.is_login?
-      TaskQueue.start_flower()
+      TaskQueue.start_flower(@creds['flower_password'])
     end
 
     # appengine is started elsewhere
diff --git a/AppController/lib/taskqueue.rb b/AppController/lib/taskqueue.rb
index 5cdf0bf822..d9b6db4d0d 100644
--- a/AppController/lib/taskqueue.rb
+++ b/AppController/lib/taskqueue.rb
@@ -209,8 +209,11 @@ def self.erase_local_files()
   # Starts the Flower Server on this machine, which provides a web UI to celery
   # and RabbitMQ. A link to Flower is given in the AppDashboard, for users to
   # monitor their Task Queue tasks.
-  def self.start_flower()
-    start_cmd = "/usr/local/bin/flower --basic_auth=appscale:appscale"
+  #
+  # Args:
+  #   flower_password: A String that is used as the password to log into flower.
+  def self.start_flower(flower_password)
+    start_cmd = "/usr/local/bin/flower --basic_auth=appscale:#{flower_password}"
     stop_cmd = "/bin/ps ax | /bin/grep flower | /bin/grep -v grep | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9"
     MonitInterface.start(:flower, start_cmd, stop_cmd, FLOWER_SERVER_PORT)
   end