# Super user elastic can't run as regular user
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/super-user-elastic-cant-run-as-regular-user/352974
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 9, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/super-user-elastic-cant-run-as-regular-user/352974 "2024-02-09T20:21:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@data\_smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/data_smith)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/super-user-elastic-cant-run-as-regular-user/352974/1 "2024-02-09T20:21:36Z")
Shouldn't elastic user be able to run\_as anyone?
I have a proxy in front of Kibana and in the past I could set it to run as a user
I would use the elastic user to authenticate and then run as someone else. Now it's saying I can't do that. It says elastic user in superuser group can't run as some other user.
But when I call the Elastic api directly it works fine:
```auto
curl -H "es-security-runas-user: jacknich" -u elastic:password -X GET http://localhost:9200/
```
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### Author:  [@data\_smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/data_smith)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/super-user-elastic-cant-run-as-regular-user/352974/2 "2024-02-09T22:02:15Z")
Nevermind. My user id was lowercase. I really wish user ids weren't case sensitive
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/super-user-elastic-cant-run-as-regular-user/352974/3 "2024-03-08T22:02:17Z")
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