[8.3.2] bin/elasticsearch-users throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException

[gerib (Gerold 'Geri' Broser)]

elasticsearch@esmaster:~/bin$ . elasticsearch-users useradd su -p password -r superuser
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: Range [13, 4) out of bounds for length 4
        at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions$1.apply(Preconditions.java:55)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions$1.apply(Preconditions.java:52)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions$4.apply(Preconditions.java:213)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions$4.apply(Preconditions.java:210)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.outOfBounds(Preconditions.java:98)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.outOfBoundsCheckFromToIndex(Preconditions.java:112)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.checkFromToIndex(Preconditions.java:349)
        at java.base/java.lang.String.checkBoundsBeginEnd(String.java:4589)
        at java.base/java.lang.String.substring(String.java:2703)
        at java.base/java.lang.String.substring(String.java:2676)
        at org.elasticsearch.launcher.CliToolLauncher.getToolName(CliToolLauncher.java:77)
        at org.elasticsearch.launcher.CliToolLauncher.main(CliToolLauncher.java:57)

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

@gerib

. elasticsearch-users useradd su -p password -r superuser

Is that the actual command you are running? Why is there a . at the start?

[gerib (Gerold 'Geri' Broser)]

It is the actual command.

elasticsearch-users is a Bash script: source or dot operator Man Page - Linux - SS64.com and I've seen right now that it doesn't pass any argument to elasticsearch-cli:

#!/bin/bash

# Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
# or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License
# 2.0; you may not use this file except in compliance with the Elastic License
# 2.0.

CLI_LIBS="modules/x-pack-core,modules/x-pack-security"
source "`dirname "$0"`"/elasticsearch-cli

[TimV (Tim Vernum)]

You should run elasticsearch-users as an executable script, it is not intended to be sourced (via .)