# Not being able to set the Kibana password via REST API **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-security, docker\ **Created:** [March 15, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-being-able-to-set-the-kibana-password-via-rest-api/327749 "2023-03-15T12:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NebulaLukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nebulalukas/32/118478_2.png) [@NebulaLukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NebulaLukas)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-being-able-to-set-the-kibana-password-via-rest-api/327749/1 "2023-03-15T12:09:27Z")
I am using the following docker-compose file that is based on the documentation, but the Kibana password does not seem to be applied since the setup hangs on _Setting kibana\_system password_ and in the Kibana logs I see that it could not retrieve nodes. What may be wrong here? Thanks! ```auto services: setup: image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION} volumes: - certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs user: "0" command: > bash -c ' if [x${ELASTIC_PASSWORD} == x]; then echo "Set the ELASTIC_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file"; exit 1; elif [x${KIBANA_PASSWORD} == x]; then echo "Set the KIBANA_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file"; exit 1; fi; if [! -f config/certs/ca.zip]; then echo "Creating CA"; bin/elasticsearch-certutil ca --silent --pem -out config/certs/ca.zip; unzip config/certs/ca.zip -d config/certs; fi; if [! -f config/certs/certs.zip]; then echo "Creating certs"; echo -ne \ "instances:\n"\ " - name: es01\n"\ " dns:\n"\ " - es01\n"\ " - localhost\n"\ " ip:\n"\ " - 127.0.0.1\n"\ " - name: fleet\n"\ " dns:\n"\ " - fleet\n"\ " - localhost\n"\ " ip:\n"\ " - 127.0.0.1\n"\ > config/certs/instances.yml; bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert --silent --pem -out config/certs/certs.zip --in config/certs/instances.yml --ca-cert config/certs/ca/ca.crt --ca-key config/certs/ca/ca.key; unzip config/certs/certs.zip -d config/certs; fi; echo "Setting file permissions" chown -R root:root config/certs; find . -type d -exec chmod 750 \{\} \;; find . -type f -exec chmod 640 \{\} \;; echo "Waiting for Elasticsearch availability"; until curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://es01:9200 | grep -q "missing authentication credentials"; do sleep 30; done; echo "Setting kibana_system password"; until curl -s -X POST --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt -u "elastic:${ELASTIC_PASSWORD}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://es01:9200/_security/user/kibana_system/_password -d "{\"password\":\"${KIBANA_PASSWORD}\"}" | grep -q "^{}"; do sleep 10; done; echo "All done!"; ' healthcheck: test: ["CMD-SHELL", "[-f config/certs/es01/es01.crt]"] interval: 1s timeout: 5s retries: 120 es01: depends_on: setup: condition: service_healthy image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION} volumes: - certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs - esdata01:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data ports: - ${ES_PORT}:9200 environment: - node.name=es01 - cluster.name=${CLUSTER_NAME} - cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01 - ELASTIC_PASSWORD=${ELASTIC_PASSWORD} - bootstrap.memory_lock=true - xpack.security.enabled=true - xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true - xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt - xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true - xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt - xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate - xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE} mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT} ulimits: memlock: soft: -1 hard: -1 healthcheck: test: [ "CMD-SHELL", "curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://localhost:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'", ] interval: 10s timeout: 10s retries: 120 kibana: depends_on: es01: condition: service_healthy image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:${STACK_VERSION} volumes: - certs:/usr/share/kibana/config/certs - kibanadata:/usr/share/kibana/data ports: - ${KIBANA_PORT}:5601 - 8200:8200 environment: - SERVERNAME=kibana - ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=https://es01:9200 - ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=kibana_system - ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=${KIBANA_PASSWORD} - ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_CERTIFICATEAUTHORITIES=config/certs/ca/ca.crt mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT} healthcheck: test: [ "CMD-SHELL", "curl -s -I http://localhost:5601 | grep -q 'HTTP/1.1 302 Found'", ] interval: 10s timeout: 10s retries: 120 volumes: esdata01: driver: local kibanadata: driver: local certs: driver: local ``` ---
**Author:** ![Yang\_Wang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yang_wang/32/48857_2.png) [@Yang\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yang_Wang)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-being-able-to-set-the-kibana-password-via-rest-api/327749/2 "2023-03-17T19:41:23Z")
> [@NebulaLukas](#): > > docker-compose file that is based on the documentation Have you changed anything in the docker-compose file? Do you passwords have any special characters? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-being-able-to-set-the-kibana-password-via-rest-api/327749/3 "2023-04-14T19:42:14Z")
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