# Syskeygen for X-Pack 5.0-alpha5

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syskeygen-for-x-pack-5-0-alpha5/60207>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 10, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syskeygen-for-x-pack-5-0-alpha5/60207 "2016-09-10T06:23:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Karl\_Grose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/karl_grose/32/11840_2.png) [@Karl\_Grose](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karl_Grose)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syskeygen-for-x-pack-5-0-alpha5/60207/1 "2016-09-10T06:23:42Z")

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There appears to be a small bug in the syskeygen Bash script for 5.0-alpha5 which causes the key file name to be incorrect. Here's the patch:

```
diff -u bin/x-pack/syskeygen.orig bin/x-pack/syskeygen
--- bin/x-pack/syskeygen.orig 2016-09-09 23:19:15.845900029 -0700
+++ bin/x-pack/syskeygen 2016-09-09 23:00:49.717433221 -0700
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 fi

 cd "$ES_HOME" > /dev/null
-"$JAVA" $ES_JAVA_OPTS -Des.path.home="$ES_HOME" -cp "$ES_CLASSPATH" org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.crypto.tool.SystemKeyTool $properties "{args[@]}"
+"$JAVA" $ES_JAVA_OPTS -Des.path.home="$ES_HOME" -cp "$ES_CLASSPATH" org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.crypto.tool.SystemKeyTool $properties "${args[@]}"
 status=$?
 cd - > /dev/null
 exit $status
```

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 7:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syskeygen-for-x-pack-5-0-alpha5/60207/2 "2016-09-10T07:14:19Z")

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Thanks a lot! I forwarded it to a dev.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syskeygen-for-x-pack-5-0-alpha5/60207/3 "2017-07-06T13:40:24Z")

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