Elasticsearch Windows Security

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How do I enable elasticsearch security features in windows i'm using elasticsearch-7.1.1.msi package ?

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I suspect you're referring to using Basic Authentication and TLS? Using the MSI the steps would be

  1. Run through the installation, choosing Basic license

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    You may decide to install Elasticsearch as a service, or not. As an example, I will install as a service

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    Do not set the service to start as part of the installation, as we need to make a configuration change before starting.

  2. Open a new PowerShell terminal and navigate to the config directory, which by default will be C:\ProgramData\Elastic\Elasticsearch\config. The ES_PATH_CONF system environment variable will be set to this path. Open elasticsearch.yml within the config directory with administrator privileges and update xpack.security.enabled key to the following

    xpack.security.enabled: true

    save the file.

  3. Start Elasticsearch service. With PowerShell

    Start-Service elasticsearch

  4. Navigate to the installation directory, which by default will be C:\Program Files\Elastic\Elasticsearch\7.1.1\. The ES_HOME system environment variable will be set to the installation directory.

    Within the installation directory, navigate to the bin directory and use the elasticsearch-setup-passwords.bat to set up built-in user accounts

     cd $env:ES_HOME\bin
 .\elasticsearch-setup-passwords.bat interactive

    Follow the prompts.

The Windows installer does not currently automate this process; we're currently discussing what the feature set of the installer should be going forward.

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