# Allocation fails on newly added nodes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-fails-on-newly-added-nodes/318120
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 3, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-fails-on-newly-added-nodes/318120 "2022-11-03T16:06:01Z")
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### Author:  [@sbk-elk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sbk-elk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-fails-on-newly-added-nodes/318120/1 "2022-11-03T16:06:01Z")
Hello Guys,
Anyone know why the below error occurs when shard allocation happens. We added a few nodes to the existing cluster and this started happening as soon as we enabled the allocations.
```auto
[indices:data/write/bulk[s][r]]]; nested: ElasticsearchSecurityException[action [indices:data/write/bulk[s][r]] requires authentication]; ], allocation_status[no_attempt]], expected_shard_size[856524144]
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-fails-on-newly-added-nodes/318120/2 "2022-11-04T01:27:38Z")
We aren't all guys 🙂
Can you please share more of the log? It'd be good to see what is in the master node's log at this time too.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-fails-on-newly-added-nodes/318120/3 "2022-12-02T01:28:19Z")
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