How does one set passwords in a pod with x-pack true

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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All the examples are related to running
bin/elasticsearch-setup-passwords interactive or auto however once elastic pod is started there is no way to shutdown to run these commands. Is there an env variable that can be passed?

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I'm not sure exactly what you refer to with elastic pod but Elasticsearch should be running for you to run elasticsearch-setup-passwords , so there is no need to shut it down.

In any way , you can pass the password for the elastic user with the ELASTIC_PASSWORD env variable if you wish and then use the Change Passwords API to set the password for the rest of the users. See our docs

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Hi @Soumitra_Ghosh,

As I was thankfully made aware by @joshbressers, you're probably talking about k8s. In that case, and assuming you are using our orchestrator, please take a look at our relevant documentation, more specifically step 2 under this section

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Hi thank you. Yes correct its on k8s it is on a cluster I built. This example is for a single node. Will this not work for a multi node elasticsearch cluster on k8s?

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I don't see why it won't

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Hi so you had originally said we could pass this through the env variable would that not work? I tried to seed it through yaml file but it does not take that value.
- name: elasticsearch.user
value: "elastic"
- name: elasticsearch.password
value: "changeme"

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My assumption for suggesting that previously, was that you use our docker image so I just mentioned what our docs say.

Since you are on k8s, please follow the relevant docs and the suggestions in there.

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