# Trying to create user in elastic but getting error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-create-user-in-elastic-but-getting-error/208425
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 19, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-create-user-in-elastic-but-getting-error/208425 "2019-11-19T05:09:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Seetharaman\_K](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Seetharaman_K)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-create-user-in-elastic-but-getting-error/208425/1 "2019-11-19T05:09:12Z")
> Error saving user: [cluster\_block\_exception] index [.security-7] blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/12/index read-only / allow delete (api)];
seems there is a block on one of the index (system related) not sure how to lift . tried following and restarted the service . but not helping !
PUT \_cluster/settings
{
"transient": {
"cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.low": "100gb",
"cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.high": "50gb",
"cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.flood\_stage": "10gb",
"cluster.info.update.interval": "1m"
}
}
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### Author:  [@Seetharaman\_K](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Seetharaman_K)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2019, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-create-user-in-elastic-but-getting-error/208425/2 "2019-11-19T10:50:02Z")
it is solved .security-7 is the inex which created the problem , it got locked. once the log was removed ,
> PUT /.security-7/\_settings
> {
> "index.blocks.read\_only\_allow\_delete": null
> }
the above code did the trick , thanks to elastic IRC
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-create-user-in-elastic-but-getting-error/208425/3 "2019-12-17T10:50:03Z")
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