Failed to authenticate user [kibana]

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hello all,

I copied the data from one elastic server to new elastic server facing the authentication issue .

    [2017-10-23T22:06:55,326][WARN ][o.e.x.s.a.AuthenticationService] [Z4Il9_V] An unexpected error occurred while attempting to authenticate [kibana] against realm [reserved]
org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchSecurityException: failed to authenticate user [kibana]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.support.Exceptions.authenticationError(Exceptions.java:39) ~[?:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.ReservedRealm.lambda$null$2(ReservedRealm.java:106) ~[?:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.ReservedRealm.lambda$doAuthenticate$3(ReservedRealm.java:110) ~[?:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$1.onResponse(ActionListener.java:59) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.ReservedRealm.getUserInfo(ReservedRealm.java:214) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.ReservedRealm.doAuthenticate(ReservedRealm.java:89) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.support.CachingUsernamePasswordRealm.doAuthenticateAndCache(CachingUsernamePasswordRealm.java:141) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.support.CachingUsernamePasswordRealm.authenticateWithCache(CachingUsernamePasswordRealm.java:107) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.support.CachingUsernamePasswordRealm.authenticate(CachingUsernamePasswordRealm.java:92) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.lambda$consumeToken$10(AuthenticationService.java:264) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.common.IteratingActionListener.run(IteratingActionListener.java:93) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.consumeToken(AuthenticationService.java:288) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.lambda$extractToken$6(AuthenticationService.java:239) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.extractToken(AuthenticationService.java:247) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.lambda$authenticateAsync$0(AuthenticationService.java:194) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.lambda$lookForExistingAuthentication$2(AuthenticationService.java:212) ~[x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.lookForExistingAuthentication(AuthenticationService.java:224) [x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.authenticateAsync(AuthenticationService.java:190) [x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService$Authenticator.access$000(AuthenticationService.java:147) [x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.AuthenticationService.authenticate(AuthenticationService.java:100) [x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.rest.SecurityRestFilter.handleRequest(SecurityRestFilter.java:78) [x-pack-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.rest.RestController.dispatchRequest(RestController.java:260) [elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]

Any help should be appreciated.

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I move your question to #x-pack.

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Can you provide more details?

  • How did you copy the data?
  • Did you copy the .security index also?
  • Is this error being caused by a Kibana server, or through manual testing?
  • Is it only the kibana user that is failing, or is elastic failing as well?
  • Was the old server using the default changeme password, or had you changed it?
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