# LS can't connect to ES with Shield

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ls-cant-connect-to-es-with-shield/34756
**Category:** Logstash
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [November 17, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ls-cant-connect-to-es-with-shield/34756 "2015-11-17T05:08:45Z")
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### Author: ![bluethundr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bluethundr/32/409_2.png) [@bluethundr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bluethundr)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ls-cant-connect-to-es-with-shield/34756/8 "2015-11-20T01:32:53Z")

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Hi jaymode,

The user looks like he has the correct role assigned to me, unless I'm mistaken:

```
esusers list ls_user
ls_user : logstash

```

And yeah I do have some logstash indices created.

```
[root@logs:~] #curl --user admin:$ES_PASS -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices
green open logstash-2015.11.19 5 1 7011724 0 6.4gb 3.2gb
green open .kibana 1 1 2 0 10.5kb 5.2kb
green open logstash-2015.11.17 5 1 20507975 0 17.9gb 8.9gb
green open logstash-2015.11.18 5 1 26372939 0 23.9gb 11.9gb

```

It seems that Logstash is functioning normally more or less. The problem is still that i can't get the ls\_user to auth to elasticsearch from the LS config. Although as I demonstrated earlier he can auth to the ES cluster on the command line:

```
[root@logs:~] #curl --user ls_user:$ES_PASS localhost:9200
{
  "name" : "JF_ES1",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "2.0.0",
    "build_hash" : "de54438d6af8f9340d50c5c786151783ce7d6be5",
    "build_timestamp" : "2015-10-22T08:09:48Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "5.2.1"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

```

I'm still seeing this output when I restart LS with the user login info:

```
plugin:elasticsearch Authentication Exception

```

Still open to suggestions!

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