# Problem with indexed groovy script, bulk API, and shield
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [June 8, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234 "2016-06-08T15:51:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@founderbits](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/founderbits)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234/1 "2016-06-08T15:51:29Z")
Hello,
I've chosen to enable all indexed scripts for my cluster and am able to put groovy scripts into .scripts with my admin user. (I should mention I setup shield with the default config.)
However, when using the readwrite user, I get the following error when trying to use the script in doing a update operation with the bulk API:
`{'update': {'error': {'type': 'illegal_argument_exception', 'reason': 'failed to execute script', 'caused_by': {'type': 'security_exception', 'reason': 'action [indices:data/read/get] is unauthorized for user [__es_system_user]'}}, '_id': '4d18aa36-126e-42f9-a397-7abae036e3e5', 'status': 400, '_type': 'subscriber', '_index': 'primary'}}`
I am using version 2.3.3 and the first 6 characters of my cluster id are 4523f3.
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### Author:  [@igor\_k](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/igor_k)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234/2 "2016-06-09T14:59:49Z")
Hi @founderbits, this seems to be an excellent question for the "X-Pack" category. I've moved the post for you.
Thanks,
Igor
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### Author:  [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234/3 "2016-06-10T12:40:31Z")
Thanks for reporting @founderbits. I am moving this to the Shield discussion category and will take a look into reproducing the issue.
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### Author:  [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234/4 "2016-06-10T16:53:51Z")
I tracked down the problem and [opened a PR](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/18816) to fix the issue in elasticsearch
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### Author:  [@jordansparked](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jordansparked)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234/5 "2016-06-15T22:44:52Z")
Hi @jaymode, I've come across this same error on my 2.3.3 cluster, is there an ETA for when 2.3.4 will be available on ES Cloud? Thx!
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### Author:  [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2016, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234/6 "2016-06-16T10:55:09Z")
We do not give dates for our releases since there are many unknowns, but the release should be available on cloud immediately once released.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-indexed-groovy-script-bulk-api-and-shield/52234/7 "2017-07-06T13:44:00Z")