# Elasticsearch 7.3.0 Enable Security - Windows System
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-3-0-enable-security-windows-system/194206
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-3-0-enable-security-windows-system/194206 "2019-08-07T10:07:45Z")
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### Author:  [@pramod.kumar2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pramod.kumar2)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-3-0-enable-security-windows-system/194206/1 "2019-08-07T10:07:45Z")
Hi Team,
I have installed Elasticsearch 7.3.0 on windows machine. And I am able to use elastic url using IP. Below are configuration which I have used -
cluster.name: "my-app"
node.name: "master\_node"
network.host: 192.168.2.106
http.port: 9202
node.master: true
node.data: true
node.ingest: false
cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["master\_node"]
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["192.168.2.106", "127.0.0.1"]
reindex.remote.whitelist: "localhost:_,192.168.2.106:_"
Now I want to enable basic username/password authentication. For that I have added below lines in yml file -
xpack.security.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
But now when I am trying to hit elastic, then it is asking me for entering username and password. I tried default username as per the document available on elastic site -
\_es\_anonymous\_user
but not able to either login and/or create user.
I also tried to set passwords using below command -
bin\> elasticsearch-setup-passwords interactive
But this also fails with below error -
Enter password for [elastic]:
Reenter password for [elastic]:
Enter password for [apm\_system]:
Reenter password for [apm\_system]:
Enter password for [kibana]:
Reenter password for [kibana]:
Enter password for [logstash\_system]:
Reenter password for [logstash\_system]:
Enter password for [beats\_system]:
Reenter password for [beats\_system]:
Enter password for [remote\_monitoring\_user]:
Reenter password for [remote\_monitoring\_user]:
Passwords do not match.
Try again.
Enter password for [remote\_monitoring\_user]:
Reenter password for [remote\_monitoring\_user]:
**Connection failure to: [http://192.168.2.106:9202/\_security/user/apm\_system/\_password?pretty](http://192.168.2.106:9202/_security/user/apm_system/_password?pretty) failed: Read timed out**
**ERROR: Failed to set password for user [apm\_system].**
Can anyone please help me to figure it out what step i need to follow to enable security in elasticsearch?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-3-0-enable-security-windows-system/194206/2 "2019-09-04T10:07:53Z")
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