# Unable to run set-password in 6.x

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-run-set-password-in-6-x/117382>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 28, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-run-set-password-in-6-x/117382 "2018-01-28T21:53:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![ikakavas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ikakavas/32/34430_2.png) [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-run-set-password-in-6-x/117382/3 "2018-01-29T14:40:37Z")

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Contacting support is the best way forward for your case, and I hope this is already resolved.

For what is worth, from your description, it looks as though you haven't set the certificate password in the Elasticsearch internal keystore as described [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/configuring-tls.html#enable-ssl) in step 2

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