Elasticsearch default credentials

[Amine_Maalfi]

Hello guys, i've found that the default credentials for ES are elastic:changeme but it's not working for me! am i missing something?
the error :

{
    "error": {
        "root_cause": [
            {
                "type": "security_exception",
                "reason": "failed to authenticate user [elastic]",
                "header": {
                    "WWW-Authenticate": "Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""
                }
            }
        ],
        "type": "security_exception",
        "reason": "failed to authenticate user [elastic]",
        "header": {
            "WWW-Authenticate": "Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""
        }
    },
    "status": 401
}

[ikakavas (Ioannis Kakavas)]

@Amine_Maalfi

i've found that the default credentials for ES are elastic:changeme

Hi there! Where did you find this ? You must be reading a very old resource as default credentials were removed in version 6.0. See Configure security in Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic for how you can set the passwords for the builtin users after installation, and how you can create your own users after that.

[Amine_Maalfi]

yes thank you i've just figured that out i must've read some old post!