# Can i change password for elastic user \[default user\] using kibana dev-tool

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952 "2020-04-27T12:30:44Z")
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### Author: ![Dragon9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@Dragon9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dragon9)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952/1 "2020-04-27T12:30:44Z")

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please provide api for this

currently i do this

```auto
POST /_security/user
{
  "password" : "s3cr3t"
}

```

but error comes

```auto
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "invalid_index_name_exception",
        "reason": "Invalid index name [_security], must not start with '_', '-', or '+'",
        "index_uuid": "_na_",
        "index": "_security"
      }
    ],
    "type": "invalid_index_name_exception",
    "reason": "Invalid index name [_security], must not start with '_', '-', or '+'",
    "index_uuid": "_na_",
    "index": "_security"
  },
  "status": 400
}

```

i also try this

```auto
POST /_security/elastic
{
  "password" : "s3cr3t"
}

```

but same error comes

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### Author: ![KoettingSimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba9def/32.png) [@KoettingSimon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KoettingSimon)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952/2 "2020-04-27T13:03:59Z")

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Hi, you are using a wrong URL, try:

> PUT \_security/user/UserName/\_password  
> {  
> "password" : "s3cr3t"  
> }

Best,  
Simon

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### Author: ![Dragon9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@Dragon9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dragon9)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952/3 "2020-04-27T13:11:50Z")

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as you told me to do

```auto
PUT _security/user/elastic/_password
{
"password" : "s3cr3t"
}

```

but no success

```auto
{
  "error": "no handler found for uri [/_security/user/elastic/_password?pretty] and method [PUT]"
}

```

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### Author: ![KoettingSimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba9def/32.png) [@KoettingSimon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KoettingSimon)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952/4 "2020-04-27T13:15:32Z")

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> [@Dragon9](#):
>
> \_security/user/elastic/\_password

could you try POST? Or another User? If tested it with a "normal" User and for me it works.

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### Author: ![Dragon9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@Dragon9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dragon9)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952/5 "2020-04-27T13:54:05Z")

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but my usecase is to change the passoword for elastic [superuser] using kibana dev-tool .  
because my application deployed in production.

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### Author: ![KoettingSimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba9def/32.png) [@KoettingSimon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KoettingSimon)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952/6 "2020-04-27T14:10:31Z")

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Hi @Dragon9,  
i tested it now on a test system and the elastic user, it worked.  
Please use:

> POST /\_security/user/elastic/\_password  
> {  
> "password" : "YourPassword"  
> }

and post the response, if the response is { }, all is fine and the password is changed.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-password-for-elastic-user-default-user-using-kibana-dev-tool/229952/7 "2020-05-25T14:10:35Z")

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