How should I disable the security manager?

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Hopefully a simple question...

Tried to disable security manager according to the javadoc in the Security class.
Tried setting env variables using ES_JAVA_OPTS with or without the es prefix.
Tried configuring in elasticsearch.yml.

I also see a command line option '--security.manager.enabled'.

Note that I am running ES using the 5.1.1 docker image.

Thanks, Kelly

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You can not disable the security manager starting in version 5.0.0. I will fix the Javadocs to reflect this change.

Would you mind explaining why you would like to disable the security manager, perhaps I can help?

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Hey, thanks for your reply.. Please see this other question for an explanation: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-customize-plugin-security-policy-for-custom-realm/ as to why I wanted to turn it off. Looks like I do have a resolution for that issue, so don't need to disable it now. I didn't spend a lot of time searching for an answer to this question, so it would be nice if the docs were real explicit that it was not possible. Thanks again! Kelly

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Okay, good, I was hoping that it would be something like this and we could just point you in the right direction. I see that @jaymode helped you there, and that's great.

I pushed a commit earlier this evening removing the language from the Javadocs saying that disabling the security manager is possible.

You're very welcome.

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