# Security Setting Issues

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 28, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295 "2018-12-28T04:52:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![osamaikhlas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4bbf92/32.png) [@osamaikhlas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/osamaikhlas)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295/1 "2018-12-28T04:52:31Z")

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Having issues in saving searches basically i can not edit in any thing.  
when i try to change the users settings it shows me permission denied.

 ![DSC_0522](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/9/69cc388093fb2fa45c761294f18d0a81ec60105a.jpeg)  
 ![DSC_0521](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/b/dbbc3e6a8cdfc3046b6b919d8c25c342b16f0340.jpeg)  
 ![elasticproblem](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/d/7dd6c9c3e9c6d7135bfd4d19bf6df32757aebec6.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295/2 "2018-12-28T05:41:22Z")

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Please don't post pictures of text, they are difficult to read and some people may not be even able to see them.

However I can just see that your first picture mentions something about read only indices. Can you paste the text of that in here?

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**Author:** ![osamaikhlas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4bbf92/32.png) [@osamaikhlas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/osamaikhlas)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295/3 "2018-12-28T07:11:46Z")

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Config: Error 403 Forbidden: blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/12/index read-only / allow delete (api)];: [cluster\_block\_exception] blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/12/index read-only / allow delete (api)];

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295/4 "2018-12-28T08:27:16Z")

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It looks like you are running out of disk space and have exceeded the flood stage watermark.

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**Author:** ![osamaikhlas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4bbf92/32.png) [@osamaikhlas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/osamaikhlas)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295/5 "2018-12-28T10:46:14Z")

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I have storage of 500 GB

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**Author:** ![osamaikhlas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4bbf92/32.png) [@osamaikhlas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/osamaikhlas)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295/6 "2018-12-28T10:47:08Z")

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I am not able delete anything also it gives the same error.

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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:** [January 25, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/security-setting-issues/162295/7 "2019-01-25T10:58:59Z")

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