# Elasticsearch asking to authenticate with no security on a basic licence **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 31, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-asking-to-authenticate-with-no-security-on-a-basic-licence/193075 "2019-07-31T09:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ethranes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e56c9b/32.png) [@ethranes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethranes)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-asking-to-authenticate-with-no-security-on-a-basic-licence/193075/1 "2019-07-31T09:00:36Z")
Hi, I've downloaded an elasticsearch zip, have no licence setup and have explicitly set xpack.security.enabled: false When I startup elasticsearch on a localhost, it is asking for me to login, I try to use the default elastic user and changeme password but it's not accepting it. ---
**Author:** ![ethranes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e56c9b/32.png) [@ethranes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethranes)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-asking-to-authenticate-with-no-security-on-a-basic-licence/193075/2 "2019-07-31T09:22:10Z")
Some output from the startup shows a few things, it's asking me to set security to false, which it is, and it's saying that xpath security is installed, which it isn't. ``` [2019-07-31T10:15:30,332][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MYSERVER] no plugins loaded [2019-07-31T10:15:33,715][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.s.FileRolesStore] [MYSERVER] parsed [0] roles from file [C:\ProgramData\Elastic\Elasticsearch\config\roles.yml] [2019-07-31T10:15:34,400][INFO][o.e.x.m.p.l.CppLogMessageHandler] [MYSERVER] [controller/1652] [Main.cc@110] controller (64 bit): Version 7.2.1 (Build 4ad685337be7fd) Copyright (c) 2019 Elasticsearch BV [2019-07-31T10:15:34,832][DEBUG][o.e.a.ActionModule] [MYSERVER] Using REST wrapper from plugin org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.Security [2019-07-31T10:15:35,090][INFO][o.e.d.DiscoveryModule] [MYSERVER] using discovery type [zen] and seed hosts providers [settings] [2019-07-31T10:15:35,766][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MYSERVER] initialized [2019-07-31T10:15:35,766][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MYSERVER] starting ... [2019-07-31T10:15:35,967][INFO][o.e.t.TransportService] [MYSERVER] publish_address {127.0.0.1:9300}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:9300}, {[::1]:9300} [2019-07-31T10:15:35,992][WARN][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks] [MYSERVER] the default discovery settings are unsuitable for production use; at least one of [discovery.seed_hosts, discovery.seed_providers, cluster.initial_master_nodes] must be configured [2019-07-31T10:15:35,993][WARN][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks] [MYSERVER] Transport SSL must be enabled if security is enabled on a [basic] license. Please set [xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled] to [true] or disable security by setting [xpack.security.enabled] to [f alse] [2019-07-31T10:15:36,002][INFO][o.e.c.c.Coordinator] [MYSERVER] cluster UUID [kiuQbPz9RKmr-2Tm6_on-g] [2019-07-31T10:15:36,051][INFO][o.e.c.c.ClusterBootstrapService] [MYSERVER] no discovery configuration found, will perform best-effort cluster bootstrapping after [3s] unless existing master is discovered [2019-07-31T10:15:36,189][INFO][o.e.c.s.MasterService] [MYSERVER] elected-as-master ([1] nodes joined)[{MYSERVER}{LiN8XEXuSNmP9nZYtk6rnw}{Hky53ZPDTLun1gxsBZKmKQ}{127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:9300}{ml.machine_memory=17179398144, xpack.installed=true, ml.max_open_jobs =20} elect leader, _BECOME_MASTER_TASK_, _FINISH_ELECTION_], term: 13, version: 49, reason: master node changed {previous [], current [{MYSERVER}{LiN8XEXuSNmP9nZYtk6rnw}{Hky53ZPDTLun1gxsBZKmKQ}{127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:9300}{ml.machine_memory=17179398144, xpack.installed =true, ml.max_open_jobs=20}]} [2019-07-31T10:15:36,236][INFO][o.e.c.s.ClusterApplierService] [MYSERVER] master node changed {previous [], current [{MYSERVER}{LiN8XEXuSNmP9nZYtk6rnw}{Hky53ZPDTLun1gxsBZKmKQ}{127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:9300}{ml.machine_memory=17179398144, xpack.installed=true, ml.max _open_jobs=20}]}, term: 13, version: 49, reason: Publication{term=13, version=49} [2019-07-31T10:15:36,298][INFO][o.e.h.AbstractHttpServerTransport] [MYSERVER] publish_address {127.0.0.1:9200}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:9200}, {[::1]:9200} [2019-07-31T10:15:36,298][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MYSERVER] started [2019-07-31T10:15:36,439][INFO][o.e.l.LicenseService] [MYSERVER] license [9f873e1a-48fd-4fb0-9821-5fc4f0cc37df] mode [basic] - valid ``` ---
**Author:** ![ethranes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e56c9b/32.png) [@ethranes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethranes)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-asking-to-authenticate-with-no-security-on-a-basic-licence/193075/3 "2019-07-31T09:36:24Z")
I was able to solve the issue, it's confusing to me though, I'm running elasticsearch from an extracted zip file, so I have my config files in there, however in the jvm args I noticed that it wasn't looking at that location for the config file, it was looking for one that it had created itself in a different directory. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-asking-to-authenticate-with-no-security-on-a-basic-licence/193075/4 "2019-08-28T09:36:26Z")
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