# Could i skip xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-skip-xpack-security-transport-ssl-enabled/246511>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security, docker\
**Created:** [August 26, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-skip-xpack-security-transport-ssl-enabled/246511 "2020-08-26T21:04:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![zakabluk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8baadc/32.png) [@zakabluk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zakabluk)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-skip-xpack-security-transport-ssl-enabled/246511/1 "2020-08-26T21:04:31Z")

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I launch elastic 7.9 by nomad. I have 3 master nodes, 3 data, 1 kibana, 1 ingest and 1 coordinator.  
I set ELASTIC\_PASSWORD for coordinator & added xpack.security.enabled: true to every config of nodes. I want only have access to kibana by login/password and be able created user/roles.  
After first time mu cluster working good, but some times I becam get error ONLY in date node logs

```
> [1]: Transport SSL must be enabled if security is enabled on a [basic] license. Please set [xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled] to [true] or disable security by setting [xpack.security.enabled] to [false]
> ERROR: Elasticsearch did not exit normally - check the logs at /usr/share/elasticsearch/logs/admitad-cluster-demo.log
> ERROR: [1] bootstrap checks failed

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master and other nodes doesn't have same error.  
I don't want to complicate my schem and added ssl. Maybe I can enable security feature for kibana without ssl?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-skip-xpack-security-transport-ssl-enabled/246511/2 "2020-08-26T21:28:57Z")

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Security in a multi node cluster requires SSL to be configured.

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**Author:** ![zakabluk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8baadc/32.png) [@zakabluk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zakabluk)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-skip-xpack-security-transport-ssl-enabled/246511/3 "2020-08-26T21:31:01Z")

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Thnx!

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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:** [September 23, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-i-skip-xpack-security-transport-ssl-enabled/246511/4 "2020-09-23T21:31:12Z")

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