# Basic license, users, and https
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-users-and-https/356163
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 26, 2024, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-users-and-https/356163 "2024-03-26T10:12:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@RainTown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RainTown)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2024, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-users-and-https/356163/1 "2024-03-26T10:12:28Z")
hi
i have a local (my personal use only) elasticsearch/kibana instance insalled and setup in Jan 2024 on my Mac.
All worked fine, until it didn't. My basic license has expired. This was expected. I did not anticpate I was using anything other than basic features, like https and authentication. I have disabled security in elasticsearch via:
xpack.security.enabled: false
but it seems this disables all "security" completely, inclduding basic stuff like https and user (e.g. the elastic user) authentication?
In the table at
> **[Subscriptions | Elastic Stack Products & Support | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions)**
>
> See subscription levels, pricing, and tiered features for on-prem deployments of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic Cloud, and Elastic Cloud Enterprise....
it suggests even basdic license should support some of these functions.
I am missing or misunderstanding something somewhere - what is it?
versions is 8.11.3 for elasticsearch
Thanks
KM
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2024, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-users-and-https/356163/2 "2024-03-26T10:20:29Z")
By setting this:
```auto
xpack.security.enabled: false
```
You are asking Elasticsearch to disable any security...
Including login / password.
That's not related to any license. See [Security settings in Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [8.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-settings.html)
> If set to `false` , security features are disabled, which is not recommended. It also affects all Kibana instances that connect to this Elasticsearch instance; you do not need to disable security features in those `kibana.yml` files. For more information about disabling security features in specific Kibana instances, see [Kibana security settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.12/security-settings-kb.html).
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-users-and-https/356163/3 "2024-03-26T10:27:20Z")
The Basic license provides support for basic security and does not expire. I suspect you have activated a trial license, which does expire. I think you can enable the Basic license [through an API call](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.12/start-basic.html), and that should allow you to reenable security as long as you are not using any features not included in the free Basic license.
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### Author:  [@RainTown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RainTown)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2024, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-users-and-https/356163/4 "2024-03-26T10:45:25Z")
thanks David and Christian for replies
% curl -sk --user ${ELKUS}:${ELKPW} -XGET [https://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices](https://localhost:9200/_cat/indices) | python3 -m json.tool
{
"error": {
"root\_cause": [
{
"type": "security\_exception",
"reason": "current license is non-compliant for [security]",
"license.expired.feature": "security"
}
],
"type": "security\_exception",
"reason": "current license is non-compliant for [security]",
**"license.expired.feature": "security"**
},
"status": 403
}
is what i saw.
But the "trial" license was correct, I've now POST-ed /\_license/start\_basic and I'm good again.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-users-and-https/356163/5 "2024-04-23T10:45:45Z")
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