# How to setup a basic authentication for Elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-a-basic-authentication-for-elasticsearch/210286>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [December 3, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-a-basic-authentication-for-elasticsearch/210286 "2019-12-03T05:05:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-a-basic-authentication-for-elasticsearch/210286/4 "2019-12-03T08:17:16Z")

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I think you need to use `ELASTIC_PASSWORD` instead.  
I shared an example (docker-compose) here: [Create user in elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-user-in-elasticsearch/182401/2)

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