# How to give built password in ECK CR

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-built-password-in-eck-cr/190742>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [July 16, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-built-password-in-eck-cr/190742 "2019-07-16T13:32:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bikkina\_mahesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bikkina_mahesh/32/49176_2.png) [@bikkina\_mahesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bikkina_mahesh)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-built-password-in-eck-cr/190742/1 "2019-07-16T13:32:26Z")

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Hi,

How to configure password for user elastic while bootup of cluster through ECK CR.

Thanks,  
Mahesh

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**Author:** ![Thibault\_Richard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thibault_richard/32/50513_2.png) [@Thibault\_Richard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thibault_Richard)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-built-password-in-eck-cr/190742/2 "2019-07-16T15:06:25Z")

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Hello,

Setting the password to a well known value is not an officially supported feature but a workaround exists by creating the `{clusterName}-es-elastic-user` Secret _before_ creating the Elasticsearch resource.

See: [https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/issues/967#issuecomment-497636249](https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/issues/967#issuecomment-497636249) .

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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:** [November 4, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-built-password-in-eck-cr/190742/3 "2022-11-04T07:17:01Z")

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