# How xpack.license.self\_generated.type: basic setting is really working?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-xpack-license-self-generated-type-basic-setting-is-really-working/150210
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 27, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-xpack-license-self-generated-type-basic-setting-is-really-working/150210 "2018-09-27T14:30:50Z")
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### Author:  [@webofmars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/webofmars)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-xpack-license-self-generated-type-basic-setting-is-really-working/150210/1 "2018-09-27T14:30:51Z")
Running a demo with ES 6.4.0 i have a strange feeling about how is handled the setting `xpack.license.self_generated.type: basic` in `elasticsearch.yml`.
My need is to have SSL (encryption in transit) and no certs authentication beetween nodes or clients.
Reeding the doc i would assume that this is not possible without a valid gold (at least subscription).
But when trying it and setting `xpack.license.self_generated.type: basic` in order to limit the license to the basic subset it seems that the xpack.ssl.\* setup are honored correctly.
ex: `openssl s_client -CAfile ./certs/ca.pem -showcerts -connect localhost:9300`
```auto
SSL handshake has read 1388 bytes and written 194 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1.2
Cipher : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384
Session-ID: 5BACE946CA28B152230EBB34E80E8E0A4F836A965791D0C01214120964BEEBA0
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key: 8FDDF779120F8C8FEAFA4769F962B342B5A91E2E8F91A847E416E0B3B0CDC55E92A98DA2C486C77687064E06EA5E79EC
Key-Arg : None
PSK identity: None
PSK identity hint: None
SRP username: None
Start Time: 1538058566
Timeout : 300 (sec)
Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---
```
or
`curl --cacert certs/ca.pem -I https://localhost:9200`:
```auto
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
content-length: 500
```
Any explanation to what i am missing here ?
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### Author:  [@webofmars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/webofmars)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-xpack-license-self-generated-type-basic-setting-is-really-working/150210/2 "2018-09-27T14:37:44Z")
In case it can explain something, this is a fresh install on Ubuntu 16.04 on digital ocean from officail ES repos...
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### Author:  [@xeraa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xeraa)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-xpack-license-self-generated-type-basic-setting-is-really-working/150210/3 "2018-09-27T14:50:47Z")
Can you post the output of `GET /_xpack/license` please? Just to make sure that the trial isn't enabled for some reason.
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### Author:  [@webofmars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/webofmars)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-xpack-license-self-generated-type-basic-setting-is-really-working/150210/4 "2018-09-27T16:09:59Z")
hi @xeraa !
without `xpack.license.self_generated.type: basic` :
```auto
"license" : {
"status" : "active",
"uid" : "d55f8059-6314-49e8-86e8-9d8df79efcb7",
"type" : "basic",
"issue_date" : "2018-09-27T16:00:17.880Z",
"issue_date_in_millis" : 1538064017880,
"max_nodes" : 1000,
"issued_to" : "kibana",
"issuer" : "elasticsearch",
"start_date_in_millis" : -1
}
}
```
with `xpack.license.self_generated.type: basic`:
```auto
{
"license" : {
"status" : "active",
"uid" : "4856423b-09e1-4eac-bd81-6c3257aa6b47",
"type" : "basic",
"issue_date" : "2018-09-27T16:08:10.648Z",
"issue_date_in_millis" : 1538064490648,
"max_nodes" : 1000,
"issued_to" : "kibana",
"issuer" : "elasticsearch",
"start_date_in_millis" : -1
}
}
```
So it seems that this is activated whatever you do ? right ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-xpack-license-self-generated-type-basic-setting-is-really-working/150210/5 "2018-10-25T16:10:02Z")
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