# How to disable x-pack security for tribe node?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-x-pack-security-for-tribe-node/86185>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 18, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-x-pack-security-for-tribe-node/86185 "2017-05-18T03:25:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-x-pack-security-for-tribe-node/86185/1 "2017-05-18T03:25:58Z")

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Hello.

I am trying to temporarily disable x-pack security setting on tribe node (es ver 5.4.0).  
I have tried below 2 ways but neither of them succeeded.

Case 1. Setting **x-pack.security.enable** _inside_ tribe definition

> ```
> tribe:
> on_conflict: prefer_dc1
> t1:
> cluster.name: dc1
> discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["10.0.1.4","10.0.1.5"]
> xpack.security.enabled: false
> 
> ```

I ended up with below error.

`[2017-05-18T11:48:49,988][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [tribe] uncaught exception in thread [main] org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException:java.lang.IllegalStateException: tribe setting [tribe.t1.xpack.security.enabled] must be set to true but the value is [false]`

Case 2. Setting **x-pack.security.enable** _outside_ tribe definition

> ```
> tribe:
> on_conflict: prefer_dc1
> t1:
> cluster.name: dc1
> discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["10.0.1.4","10.0.1.5"]
> node.ml: false
> xpack.ml.enabled: false
> node.ml: false
> xpack.ml.enabled: false
> tribe.t1.xpack.security.enabled: false
> 
> ```

This ended up with node adding and removing back and forth.

```
[2017-05-18T12:13:31,991][INFO][o.e.c.s.ClusterService] [uniform-1] added {{tribe/t1}{32OZnV0tQF6RjRW-Jayp9Q}{MPpnbzG4SvapKIRxqRkn8w}{10.0.1.7}{10.0.1.7:9301},}, reason: zen-disco-receive(from master [master {uniform-2}{-PGt5q_YRIGFQ4-xAJb6zw}{sevy7rL3T2-qLsf24A6Mhw}{10.0.1.5}{10.0.1.5:9300}{ml.enabled=true} committed version [103]])
[2017-05-18T12:13:32,035][INFO][o.e.c.s.ClusterService] [uniform-1] removed {{tribe/t1}{32OZnV0tQF6RjRW-Jayp9Q}{MPpnbzG4SvapKIRxqRkn8w}{10.0.1.7}{10.0.1.7:9301},}, reason: zen-disco-receive(from master [master {uniform-2}{-PGt5q_YRIGFQ4-xAJb6zw}{sevy7rL3T2-qLsf24A6Mhw}{10.0.1.5}{10.0.1.5:9300}{ml.enabled=true} committed version [104]])

```

[This](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/23515) reference worked with second case but not for me.

Is there any way to disable x-pack security on tribe node?

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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-x-pack-security-for-tribe-node/86185/2 "2017-05-19T03:56:19Z")

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Got it working. You need to set **xpack.security.enabled : false** inside the tribe node stanza as well. xpack option seems to be not inherited to the tribe setting.

```
node.master: false
node.data: false
node.ingest: false

tribe:
  t1:
    discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["192.168.11.15"]
    xpack.security.enabled: false

xpack.security.enabled: false
```

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-x-pack-security-for-tribe-node/86185/3 "2017-05-23T14:06:09Z")

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Glad you got it working. Thanks for letting us know.

Cheers  
Bhavya

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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:** [June 20, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-x-pack-security-for-tribe-node/86185/4 "2017-06-20T14:06:23Z")

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