# Set webhook basic auth password in elasticsearch.yml?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-webhook-basic-auth-password-in-elasticsearch-yml/28142
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [August 26, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-webhook-basic-auth-password-in-elasticsearch-yml/28142 "2015-08-26T21:55:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@geo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/geo)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-webhook-basic-auth-password-in-elasticsearch-yml/28142/1 "2015-08-26T21:55:31Z")
Is it possible to set the basic auth password for a Watcher webhook in the elasticsearch.yml file rather than having to add it to each individual watch definition? Thus, avoiding the need to update every watch if/when the password changes.
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### Author:  [@uboness](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uboness)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-webhook-basic-auth-password-in-elasticsearch-yml/28142/2 "2015-08-27T16:46:19Z")
Not at the moment, but that's an absolutely valid feature request we'll add to our roadmap. thanks!
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### Author:  [@geo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/geo)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-webhook-basic-auth-password-in-elasticsearch-yml/28142/3 "2015-08-27T17:09:38Z")
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-webhook-basic-auth-password-in-elasticsearch-yml/28142/4 "2017-07-06T13:48:48Z")