# How to change password for Elasticsearch Default users like elastic,kiban... etc
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-password-for-elasticsearch-default-users-like-elastic-kiban-etc/167430
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-password-for-elasticsearch-default-users-like-elastic-kiban-etc/167430 "2019-02-07T11:03:50Z")
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### Author:  [@Amitittech](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amitittech)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-password-for-elasticsearch-default-users-like-elastic-kiban-etc/167430/1 "2019-02-07T11:03:50Z")
Hi Team,
I am using kibana 6.4 and elasticsearch 6.4 on window 10 local machine.
how to get password to put below
`elasticsearch.username: "kibana"
elasticsearch.password: "kibanapassword"`
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### Author:  [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-password-for-elasticsearch-default-users-like-elastic-kiban-etc/167430/2 "2019-02-11T00:17:42Z")
This is covered in the security setup guide.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.4/security-getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.4/security-getting-started.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-password-for-elasticsearch-default-users-like-elastic-kiban-etc/167430/3 "2019-03-11T00:17:44Z")
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