# How to change .security-6 index to read-write
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-security-6-index-to-read-write/237141
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [June 15, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-security-6-index-to-read-write/237141 "2020-06-15T13:07:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@cgricb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cgricb)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-security-6-index-to-read-write/237141/1 "2020-06-15T13:07:14Z")
My ES nodes were out of space and ES decided to take all indices read-only. After i ve added space and altered all indices to read-write i was successfull. But i could not alter the .security-6 index to read-write. Can you please show me a way how to do it without disabling the security.
```auto
{
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "security_exception",
"reason": "action [indices:admin/settings/update] is unauthorized for user [admin]"
}
],
"type": "security_exception",
"reason": "action [indices:admin/settings/update] is unauthorized for user [admin]"
},
"status": 403
}
```
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### Author:  [@cgricb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cgricb)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-security-6-index-to-read-write/237141/2 "2020-06-19T07:49:55Z")
I can not even delete it
```auto
{
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "security_exception",
"reason": "action [indices:admin/delete] is unauthorized for user [root]"
}
],
"type": "security_exception",
"reason": "action [indices:admin/delete] is unauthorized for user [root]"
},
"status": 403
}
```
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### Author:  [@cgricb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cgricb)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-security-6-index-to-read-write/237141/3 "2020-06-23T08:29:12Z")
I ve changed the , file based users role to superuser and could altered the special indexes. If you do not use filebased users you should create one to solve this issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-security-6-index-to-read-write/237141/4 "2020-07-21T08:29:23Z")
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