# Kibana Keystore No Such Directory Error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-keystore-no-such-directory-error/215549>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 18, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-keystore-no-such-directory-error/215549 "2020-01-18T08:02:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![kiyapedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@kiyapedia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kiyapedia)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-keystore-no-such-directory-error/215549/1 "2020-01-18T08:02:06Z")

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Hello —

I've got Elasticsearch and Kibana running with docker-compose with no issues. In my kibana.yml file, my password is exposed as such:

```
server.name: kibana
server.host: "0"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://elasticsearch:9200"]
elasticsearch.username: kibana
elasticsearch.password: password

```

When trying to create a kibana-keystore to protect the password value, i get the following error:

`bash: bin/kibana-keystore: No such file or directory`

I am following this documentation to create the kibana-keystore:

`https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.8/secure-settings.html`

I've also tried storing the password in `elasticsearch-keystore` but could not reference it and it caused my elasticsearch cluster to fail. I assume this is the reason why:

`Only some settings are designed to be read from the keystore. However, there is no validation to block unsupported settings from the keystore and they can cause Elasticsearch to fail to start.`

Any insights on how i can protect the password in kibana.yml would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![grumo35](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grumo35/32/59451_2.png) [@grumo35](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grumo35)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-keystore-no-such-directory-error/215549/2 "2020-01-18T11:12:08Z")

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Hey have you tried to look under /usr/share/bin ?

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**Author:** ![kiyapedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@kiyapedia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kiyapedia)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-keystore-no-such-directory-error/215549/3 "2020-01-18T14:04:21Z")

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Yes I have. There is no `usr/share/bin`. Here is the output when i ls in my docker container:

`LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt README.textile bin config data jdk lib logs modules plugins`

Here is the output when i ls in bin:

```
elasticsearch elasticsearch-cli elasticsearch-enve elasticsearch-node elasticsearch-setup-passwords elasticsearch-sql-cli-7.5.1.jar x-pack-env
elasticsearch-certgen elasticsearch-croneval elasticsearch-keystore elasticsearch-plugin elasticsearch-shard elasticsearch-syskeygen x-pack-security-env
elasticsearch-certutil elasticsearch-env elasticsearch-migrate elasticsearch-saml-metadata elasticsearch-sql-cli elasticsearch-users x-pack-watcher-env

```

This is where i want to create the kibana-kestore. When typing in `kibana-keystore create`, i get no such file or directory. When i try doing it from the root of the elasticsearch directory with: `bin/kibana-keystore create`, i get no such file or directory.

So i went ahead and tried to create the the password credentials in the elasticsearch.keystore that exists but I could not reference it in `kibana.yml` and it caused my elsaticsearch cluster to fail with the following message so i got rid of addition:

`Only some settings are designed to be read from the keystore. However, there is no validation to block unsupported settings from the keystore and they can cause Elasticsearch to fail to start.`

I just need a way to securly reference the `elasticsearch.password` in the `kibana.yml` file. Any help is appreciated!

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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:** [February 15, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-keystore-no-such-directory-error/215549/4 "2020-02-15T14:04:22Z")

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