# Fantastic Elastic Plugin on WordPress - Hoe do you specify server authentication? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 26, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fantastic-elastic-plugin-on-wordpress-hoe-do-you-specify-server-authentication/33023 "2015-10-26T20:22:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![piplong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/piplong/32/5493_2.png) [@piplong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piplong)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fantastic-elastic-plugin-on-wordpress-hoe-do-you-specify-server-authentication/33023/1 "2015-10-26T20:22:42Z")
I set up my Elastic Server on on a dedicated digi Umuntu VM, separate from my web-site host service. Seem to work find for a while but but then I tightened the security up on the Elastic Server and now Elastic Search is failing with unable to login. Thing is I can't see where I set the user name/password in the first place. (I assume the Server field in General Setting is supposed to reference a remote elastic server?). What sort of authentication does it support - can I hack the plug0-in code to make is use an RSA Public key? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fantastic-elastic-plugin-on-wordpress-hoe-do-you-specify-server-authentication/33023/2 "2015-10-27T04:42:26Z")
Natively, Elasticsearch doesn't support any auth. You need to install the Shield plugin to get this. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fantastic-elastic-plugin-on-wordpress-hoe-do-you-specify-server-authentication/33023/3 "2017-07-05T23:42:33Z")