# Getting started with XPack features in basic licesne

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-with-xpack-features-in-basic-licesne/200197>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** license, docker\
**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-with-xpack-features-in-basic-licesne/200197 "2019-09-19T11:47:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Vivek\_Vardhan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vivek_vardhan/32/49429_2.png) [@Vivek\_Vardhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vivek_Vardhan)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-with-xpack-features-in-basic-licesne/200197/1 "2019-09-19T11:47:32Z")

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Hello Team

I am using docker image of elasticsearch mentioned in [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/docker.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/docker.html)

As mentioned in the above, **These images are free to use under the Elastic license. They contain open source and free commercial features**

And the [Subscription](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) link says, the basic version of elasticsearch has basic security like - Role-based access control, File and native authentication

So, I started my application with "xpack.security.enabled" as true, and none of the other feature / settings. Now, I am not able to access my cluster, which says **Missing authentication token for REST request [/\_cluster/health]**

Now, what should I do so that I can set up the access to my cluster and add users using  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/security-api.html#security-user-apis](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/security-api.html#security-user-apis)

these APIs? What default roles was generated, and how should I use these default roles to use these APIs. I am not able to find a single concrete article, which starts from enabling xpack and go till adding user and checking access via API.

I do not want to go to individual nodes and add users

As I understand, these APIs are available under Basic license. (Correct me if I am wrong), if I am wrong, I would like to know what can be done with Basic License to add basic security. Any complete documentation will help.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![skydancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@skydancer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skydancer)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-with-xpack-features-in-basic-licesne/200197/2 "2019-09-19T16:05:51Z")

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Have you seen this:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/setup-passwords.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.6/setup-passwords.html)

?

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**Author:** ![Vivek\_Vardhan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vivek_vardhan/32/49429_2.png) [@Vivek\_Vardhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vivek_Vardhan)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-with-xpack-features-in-basic-licesne/200197/3 "2019-09-20T07:31:36Z")

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@skydancer Tried it, but it is failing. My ES cluster is hosted in K8S, and I can access only via Ingress

I am accessing this with http and "xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled" is set to false.

**bin/elasticsearch-setup-passwords auto -u [http://xx.xx.xx.xx](http://xx.xx.xx.xx) (Ingress external IP)**

and elasticsearch is installed locally, trying to change password in external hosted ES

```
Exception in thread "main" ElasticsearchParseException[Failed to parse content to map]; nested: JsonParseException[Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')
 at [Source: java.io.StringReader@22875539; line: 1, column: 2]];
	at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentHelper.convertToMap(XContentHelper.java:131)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.tool.HttpResponse$HttpResponseBuilder.withResponseBody(HttpResponse.java:55)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.tool.SetupPasswordTool$SetupCommand.responseBuilder(SetupPasswordTool.java:538)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.tool.SetupPasswordTool$SetupCommand.lambda$checkElasticKeystorePasswordValid$1(SetupPasswordTool.java:300)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.tool.CommandLineHttpClient.execute(CommandLineHttpClient.java:126)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.tool.SetupPasswordTool$SetupCommand.checkElasticKeystorePasswordValid(SetupPasswordTool.java:299)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.tool.SetupPasswordTool$AutoSetup.execute(SetupPasswordTool.java:129)
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:77)
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
	at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authc.esnative.tool.SetupPasswordTool.main(SetupPasswordTool.java:107)
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')
 at [Source: java.io.StringReader@22875539; line: 1, column: 2]
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser._constructError(JsonParser.java:1702)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase._reportError(ParserMinimalBase.java:558)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase._reportUnexpectedChar(ParserMinimalBase.java:456)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser._handleOddValue(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:1906)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser.nextToken(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:749)
	at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.json.JsonXContentParser.nextToken(JsonXContentParser.java:52)
	at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.support.AbstractXContentParser.readMap(AbstractXContentParser.java:336)
	at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.support.AbstractXContentParser.readMap(AbstractXContentParser.java:309)
	at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.support.AbstractXContentParser.map(AbstractXContentParser.java:264)
	at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentHelper.convertToMap(XContentHelper.java:129)
	... 12 more
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-with-xpack-features-in-basic-licesne/200197/4 "2019-09-20T07:36:48Z")

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You need to use at least 6.8 I think.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-with-xpack-features-in-basic-licesne/200197/5 "2019-10-18T07:42:42Z")

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