# Curator delete indices shield permissions **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-security\ **Created:** [September 16, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-delete-indices-shield-permissions/29354 "2015-09-16T01:31:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doug\_Nelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@Doug\_Nelson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Doug_Nelson)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-delete-indices-shield-permissions/29354/1 "2015-09-16T01:31:23Z")
I have a working curator delete script that works when I run it from my very privileged admin account. I am trying to get it to work with a curator role and I want to limit the actions to exactly what is required. this is how the role is defined curator: cluster: montior indices: '.-shield\_audit\_log-\*': -indices:admin/delete, indices:admin/exists, indices:admin/get When I run the curator script as the curator account I get a message saying no indices found. I am looking to remove indices that are more than 7 days old. Again when I run the curator account in my full admin role, it does find and remove the indices. ---
**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-delete-indices-shield-permissions/29354/2 "2015-09-16T11:40:00Z")
Hi Doug, If this role is for the Shield Index Audit output, I believe that you have an extra `-` in the index name: `'.-shield_audit_log-*'` should be `'.shield_audit_log-*'` Jay ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Nelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@Doug\_Nelson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Doug_Nelson)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-delete-indices-shield-permissions/29354/3 "2015-09-16T12:58:32Z")
Sorry, that was a typo when I was entering the post. I do not have the .-shield but rather .shield. Like I said, when I use my credentials it works, but not with the credentials I have set up for the curator roles. ---
**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-delete-indices-shield-permissions/29354/4 "2015-09-16T14:05:14Z")
Can you try updating the role to: ```auto curator: cluster: monitor indices: '.shield_audit_log-*': - indices:monitor/settings/get - indices:admin/delete - indices:admin/exists - indices:admin/get ``` I believe curator gets the list of indices through the get settings API. A side note, one way to determine the necessary privileges would be to look at the `access_granted` entries in the audit log from your administrative user when curator is interacting with Shield. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Nelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@Doug\_Nelson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Doug_Nelson)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-delete-indices-shield-permissions/29354/5 "2015-09-17T02:54:51Z")
Figured out the issue. I needed to put the indices on the single line with log name '.shield\_audit\_log-\*' : indices:admin/get, indices:admin/delete These are the methods that are called. I don't really understand why the list option did not work. Also, when using the list format,. I did not get entries in the security log, once I switched to the single line option as shown above I could see the entries in the log. Thanks for the help, really appresciated ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-delete-indices-shield-permissions/29354/6 "2017-07-06T13:48:23Z")