# Elasticsearch 5.2.2 X-Pack disable default user
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-2-x-pack-disable-default-user/95753
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 3, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-2-x-pack-disable-default-user/95753 "2017-08-03T17:48:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@eramitsinha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eramitsinha)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-2-x-pack-disable-default-user/95753/1 "2017-08-03T17:48:48Z")
Hi,
How to Disable Default User(elastic, kibana, logstash\_system) for production for 5.2.2 version.
In 5.4, I could see following:
xpack.security.authc.accept\_default\_password
Thanks,
Amit.
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### Author:  [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-2-x-pack-disable-default-user/95753/2 "2017-08-04T06:12:01Z")
You can disable builtin users through the User Management API
- [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/security-api-users.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/security-api-users.html)
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### Author:  [@eramitsinha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eramitsinha)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-2-x-pack-disable-default-user/95753/3 "2017-08-04T06:27:39Z")
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-2-2-x-pack-disable-default-user/95753/4 "2017-09-01T06:28:22Z")
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