What is elasticsearch9.x default ca password?

wangchao732 · July 31, 2025, 7:54am

es is running normally, but the default ca password is unknown.

stephenb · July 31, 2025, 9:40pm

Hi @wangchao732 Welcome to the community...

It is stored the the elasticsearch keystore

bin/elasticsearch-keystore list
bin/elasticsearch-keystore show the.name.of.the.setting.to.show

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