Creating grroup in Elasticsearch

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Hi
Anybody could help me describing how to group multiple users in Elastic
I have an xpack enabled elasticsearch,and created multiple user.
i have group users who all belongs to one group.How could i achieve this please help me in this.

Thanks

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Hi,

There is no notion of Groups in the native realm of Elasticsearch. Could you explain what you want to achieve? We might be able to help you do this in a different way.

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A group is kind of like a role, in that you assign common privileges to the role and then users to that.

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Hi @warkolm and @ikakavas
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/authorization.html

By seeing the picture in the above document i am getting confused

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If you read through this page you can see we reference:

Group
One or more groups to which a user belongs. Groups are not supported in some realms, such as native, file, or PKI realms.

The native realm has no notion of realms. The LDAP realm, the AD realm , the SAML realm do , on the other hand. These groups are defined in LDAP/AD and Elasticsearch just reads them.

Is it any clearer now?

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Okay,Then could we make roles as groups by assigning different users and privileges?

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Yes, for all intents and purposes in simple use cases, it is safe to assume that users having the same role is the equivalent of users belonging to the same group.

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Hi @ikakavas

Thanks for the Response!

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