So I have installed license and shield plugins, after which I get user authentication error. I guess it defaults to Shield realm. What's the default user/password ? Also, how do I manually create users from a command line?

Default user/password after Shield is installed

warkolm (Mark Walkom) October 5, 2016, 8:31am 3

There is no default for 2.X, for 5.X it's elastic and password.

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