# Basic license - some xpack options seem to be wrongfully not available? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-security\ **Created:** [June 24, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-some-xpack-options-seem-to-be-wrongfully-not-available/187076 "2019-06-24T08:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bezopaznosti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bezopaznosti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bezopaznosti)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-some-xpack-options-seem-to-be-wrongfully-not-available/187076/1 "2019-06-24T08:16:26Z")
Hey all, When reading the [subscriptions page](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions), it seemed to me as if some xpack security options would be available for a basic license. The subscription page mentions that following options should be available: Encrypted communications, Role based access control & File and native authentication. When I tried to register my basic license on my newly set-up server however, I got the following message: ``` { "acknowledged": false, "license_status": "valid", "acknowledge": { "message": "This license update requires acknowledgement. To acknowledge the license, please read the following messages and update the license again, this time with the \"acknowledge=true\" parameter:", "watcher": [ "Watcher will be disabled" ], "security": [ "The following X-Pack security functionality will be disabled: authentication, authorization, ip filtering, and auditing. Please restart your node after applying the license.", "Field and document level access control will be disabled.", "Custom realms will be ignored." ], "monitoring": [ "Multi-cluster support is disabled for clusters with [BASIC] license. If you are\nrunning multiple clusters, users won't be able to access the clusters with\n[BASIC] licenses from within a single X-Pack Kibana instance. You will have to deploy a\nseparate and dedicated X-pack Kibana instance for each [BASIC] cluster you wish to monitor.", "Automatic index cleanup is locked to 7 days for clusters with [BASIC] license." ], "graph": [ "Graph will be disabled" ], "ml": [ "Machine learning will be disabled" ] } } ``` Notably the `The following X-Pack security functionality will be disabled: authentication, authorization, ip filtering, and auditing.` seems to contradict the licensing stuff mentioned on the subscription page (isn't `Role based access control & File and native authentication` the same?). To me it seems like the basic license enforced on my server is not in line with the stuff mentioned on the subscription page, or am I missing something? Sincerely yours, B. ---
**Author:** ![Bernt\_Rostad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bernt\_Rostad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernt_Rostad)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-some-xpack-options-seem-to-be-wrongfully-not-available/187076/2 "2019-06-24T08:25:39Z")
> [@bezopaznosti](#): > > To me it seems like the basic license enforced on my server is not in line with the stuff mentioned on the subscription page, or am I missing something? You need at least versions 6.8.0 or 7.1.0 in order to access those features with a Basic license, see [Security for Elasticsearch is now free](https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-now-free). ---
**Author:** ![bezopaznosti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bezopaznosti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bezopaznosti)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-some-xpack-options-seem-to-be-wrongfully-not-available/187076/3 "2019-06-24T09:05:45Z")
I am using version 5.6 (because of compatibility issues with an existing server). Which license would I require in order to use basic auth? The current subscriptions page says that gold should suffice, but is this also true for 5.6? And can I find pricing somewhere, or am I obliged to send an email and go through the whole sales process. ---
**Author:** ![Bernt\_Rostad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bernt\_Rostad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernt_Rostad)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-some-xpack-options-seem-to-be-wrongfully-not-available/187076/4 "2019-06-24T09:10:49Z")
> [@bezopaznosti](#): > > Which license would I require in order to use basic auth? I only use Basic license myself so I don't know the answers to this question. As for the pricing, you will need to contact Elastic to get a quote which will typically depend on the number of nodes in your cluster. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-some-xpack-options-seem-to-be-wrongfully-not-available/187076/5 "2019-06-24T09:30:18Z")
> [@bezopaznosti](#): > > The current subscriptions page says that gold should suffice, but is this also true for 5.6? Yes. This is true. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-some-xpack-options-seem-to-be-wrongfully-not-available/187076/6 "2019-07-22T09:35:41Z")
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