# Illegal User Settings

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/illegal-user-settings/65610>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 10, 2016, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/illegal-user-settings/65610 "2016-11-10T09:20:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sudhir\_Kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sudhir_kumar/32/13080_2.png) [@Sudhir\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sudhir_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/illegal-user-settings/65610/5 "2016-11-10T14:24:17Z")

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Hi Alex,

I am using the hosted cluster. I am trying to update user settings from portal.

URL: [https://api.found.no/api/v0/clusters/us-east-1/b0a4ab1f733156e01cb0197bd8761302](https://api.found.no/api/v0/clusters/us-east-1/b0a4ab1f733156e01cb0197bd8761302)

PayLoad

{"scripting":{"inline":"sandbox","indexed":"sandbox","file":"sandbox"},"auto\_create\_index":true,"capacity":"1024","region":"us-east-1","availability\_zones":"1","version":"5.0.0","destructive\_requires\_name":false,"ssd":true,"user\_plugins":,"plugins":,"user\_id":19283115,"created":"2016-11-10T14:12:10Z","txid":79664045,"cluster\_id":"b0a4ab1f733156e01cb0197bd8761302","is\_hidden":false,"identifier":null,"data":{"name":"sudhir"},"extra\_user\_settings\_source":"watcher.actions.email.service.account:\n gmail\_account:\n profile: gmail\n smtp:\n auth: true\n starttls.enable: true\n host: [smtp.gmail.com](http://smtp.gmail.com)\n port: 587\n user: username\n password: 'password'"}

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