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ChickenWing24
ChickenWing24

Reputation: 205

How to reset password for Shield in Elasticsearch

Context: Setting up Shield on my local machine for a 1 node Elasticsearch

Machine: Mac OSX 10.9.5

After installing Shield, I tried adding admin users but failed to do so because initially I did not restart my ES. During this attempt, I tried a bunch of username and password combinations(My bad here).

After I was pointed out that I had to restart ES before creating any users, I did so. Now, everytime I open localhost:9200 on my browser, I am required to provide a username and password.

I have tried most of the combinations that I 'attempted' to create earlier, but non seems to be the right one.

Upon running the bin/shield/users, it shows that I have one user which is my machine name. Tried again a bunch of possible passwords that I could think of, but nothing seems to be the right one. Below is the error I'm getting

{"error":"AuthenticationException[unable to authenticate user [username] for REST request [/_shield]]","status":401}

So, any idea on how I could reset the password or the delete the user entirely ??

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3207

Answers (1)

Andrei Stefan
Andrei Stefan

Reputation: 52368

Use the esusers userdel username command to delete that username and add another one of your choice.

Upvotes: 6

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