Create passwords for built-in users
editCreate passwords for built-in users
editThere are built-in users that you can use for specific
administrative purposes: apm_system
, beats_system
, elastic
, kibana
,
logstash_system
, and remote_monitoring_user
.
Before you can use them, you must set their passwords:
-
Restart Elasticsearch. For example, if you installed Elasticsearch with a
.tar.gz
package, run the following command from the Elasticsearch directory:./bin/elasticsearch
-
Set the built-in users' passwords.
Run the following command from the Elasticsearch directory:
./bin/elasticsearch-setup-passwords interactive
You need these built-in users in subsequent steps, so choose passwords that you can remember!
This tutorial does not use the built-in apm_system
, logstash_system
,
beats_system
, and remote_monitoring_user
users, which are typically
associated with monitoring. For more information, see
Configuring credentials for Logstash monitoring
and Monitoring Metricbeat.