Adding users

Hi forum,

Just upgraded top 5.4.3 and added x-pack plugins - I cant seem to create a new user, as I need a the elastic user's password to do the calls to add new users to access kibana (now I have to enter a UID and PW, which I used to delegate to NGINX) - all gone a bit chicken and egg - and elastic/changeme dont seem to work. Newbie - be patient thanks

curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/_xpack/security/user/johnsmith?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'

{
  "password" : "q1w2e3r4",
  "roles" : [ "admin" ],
  "full_name" : "John Smith",
  "email" : "john@smith.com",
}
{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "security_exception",
        "reason" : "missing authentication token for REST request [/_xpack/security/user/johnsmith?pretty]",
        "header" : {
          "WWW-Authenticate" : "Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""
        }
      }
    ],
    "type" : "security_exception",
    "reason" : "missing authentication token for REST request [/_xpack/security/user/johnsmith?pretty]",
    "header" : {
      "WWW-Authenticate" : "Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""
    }
  },
  "status" : 401
}

Hi Nicholas,

Hmm, I wonder why adding --user elastic:changeme doesn't work? Do you get the same error when you set that argument?

Thanks,
CJ

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