# Using "xpack.security.enabled: true" on Windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-xpack-security-enabled-true-on-windows/212829>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 23, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-xpack-security-enabled-true-on-windows/212829 "2019-12-23T10:09:14Z")\
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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:** [December 24, 2019, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-xpack-security-enabled-true-on-windows/212829/4 "2019-12-24T09:50:32Z")

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It's super hard to know what is happening. You need to share your `elasticsearch.yml` file (Please [read this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21) about how to format).

And the `kibana.yml` file as well.

And Elasticsearch logs.

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