# Missing security index, not able to change password

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-security-index-not-able-to-change-password/66188>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 16, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-security-index-not-able-to-change-password/66188 "2016-11-16T02:57:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![francisca.munhoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/97f17d/32.png) [@francisca.munhoz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/francisca.munhoz)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-security-index-not-able-to-change-password/66188/1 "2016-11-16T02:57:11Z")

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Hi guys, I'm new to Elasticsearch, so please forgive my questions if it's too basic.

I have a ELK 5.0 cluster running with 1 client node and 3 data/master nodes. I have installed X-pack, but I only activated Monitoring until Monday.

Yesterday I was working on Security, following the steps from ([Getting Started with Security | X-Pack for the Elastic Stack [6.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/security-getting-started.html)) the available guide, and when tried to change the password for elastic user I got this error message:  
Error:  
No handler found for uri [/\_xpack/security/user/elastic/\_password] and method [PUT]

On my client node:  
curl -XPUT -u elastic '127.0.0.1:9200/\_xpack/security/user/elastic/\_password' -d '{

> "password" : "mypassword"  
> }'  
> Enter host password for user 'elastic':  
> No handler found for uri [/\_xpack/security/user/elastic/\_password] and method [PUT]

Looking at my data nodes I don't have the security index, but I do have the monitoring index.  
On my elasticsearch.yml I do have this setting:

action.auto\_create\_index: .security,.monitoring\*,.watches,.triggered\_watches,.watcher-history\*

What am I missing?

I would really appreciated some help here!

Thanks  
Fran

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**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-security-index-not-able-to-change-password/66188/2 "2016-11-16T12:06:38Z")

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Hi Fran,

What settings have you changed in the `elasticsearch.yml` file?

Jay

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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:** [December 14, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-security-index-not-able-to-change-password/66188/3 "2016-12-14T12:06:39Z")

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