# User Security fail

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-security-fail/146911>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-security-fail/146911 "2018-08-31T20:02:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dbhatia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@dbhatia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dbhatia)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-security-fail/146911/1 "2018-08-31T20:02:16Z")

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Helo Experts,

We are using elasticsearch basic license. I need to create users (any type of authentication supported ) by ELS in basic licensing would work . Please suggest how to resolve this.  
Requirement is to have user access by indexes.

curl -XPOST -u elastic '_**:9200/\_xpack/security/user/apprw?pretty=true' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{  
"password" : "**_\*",  
"full\_name" : "app Read Write",  
"roles" : ["admin"]  
}'

{  
"error" : {  
"root\_cause" : [  
{  
"type" : "security\_exception",  
"reason" : "current license is non-compliant for [security]",  
"license.expired.feature" : "security"  
}  
],  
"type" : "security\_exception",  
"reason" : "current license is non-compliant for [security]",  
"license.expired.feature" : "security"  
},  
"status" : 403  
}

/\_xpack/license  
{  
"license" : {  
"status" : "active",  
"uid" : "9cb85de6-9907-440b-88db-37c3a118ab63",  
"type" : "basic",  
"issue\_date" : "2018-08-22T22:06:55.959Z",  
"issue\_date\_in\_millis" : 1534975615959,  
"max\_nodes" : 1000,  
"issued\_to" : "\*\*\*\*\*\*",  
"issuer" : "elasticsearch",  
"start\_date\_in\_millis" : -1  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-security-fail/146911/2 "2018-08-31T20:17:43Z")

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Security is not available with a Basic level license, see [https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions)

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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:** [September 28, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-security-fail/146911/3 "2018-09-28T20:23:45Z")

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