# Security exception Shield
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-exception-shield/69501
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [December 19, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-exception-shield/69501 "2016-12-19T22:02:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@bishaka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bishaka)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-exception-shield/69501/1 "2016-12-19T22:02:28Z")
Hi,
I have shield with ES and Kibana enabled. I am trying to analyze twitter data using elasticsearch. My config file looks like the following:
Twttter
> input {
> twitter {
> consumer\_key =\> "\<\>"
> consumer\_secret =\> "\<\>"
> oauth\_token =\> "\<\>"
> oauth\_token\_secret =\> "\<\>"
> keywords =\> ["#Amp"]
> full\_tweet =\> "true"
> }
> }
> filter {
> }
> output {
> elasticsearch {
> hosts =\> "10.10.20.111"
> index =\> "twitter"
> document\_type =\> "real"
> }
> #stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }
> }
When i run the twitter.conf file, I get the following error:
> [401] {"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"security\_exception","reason":"missing authentication token for REST request [/\_template/logstash]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm="shield" charset="UTF-8""}}],"type":"security\_exception","reason":"missing authentication token for REST request [/\_template/logstash]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm="shield" charset="UTF-8""}},"status":401} {:class=\>"Elasticsearch::Transport::Transport::Errors::Unauthorized", :level=\>:error}
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### Author:  [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-exception-shield/69501/2 "2016-12-19T22:57:32Z")
> [@bishaka](#):
>
> I have shield with ES and Kibana enabled.
> [@bishaka](#):
>
> I get the following error: ...
>
> > missing authentication token for REST request [/\_template/logstash]
When you install shield into elasticsearch, you require that all requests into elasticsearch provide a username+password (\*)
You need to update your logstash config to have appropriate security credentials:
Please read [Using Logstash with Shield | Shield [2.4] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/2.4/logstash.html) (you should switch the version of the docs so that it matches your version of shield)
_(\*) There are options to disable that, but since the purpose of shield is to provide security, you probably don't want to turn it off._
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-exception-shield/69501/3 "2017-01-16T22:57:33Z")
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