# Where we can see our built in user's passwords in elasticsearch in plain text?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-we-can-see-our-built-in-users-passwords-in-elasticsearch-in-plain-text/268653>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [March 29, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-we-can-see-our-built-in-users-passwords-in-elasticsearch-in-plain-text/268653 "2021-03-29T12:30:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Husnain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Husnain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Husnain)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-we-can-see-our-built-in-users-passwords-in-elasticsearch-in-plain-text/268653/1 "2021-03-29T12:30:09Z")

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Hii.I want to see my built in user's password in plain text.How can I see this?

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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:** [March 29, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-we-can-see-our-built-in-users-passwords-in-elasticsearch-in-plain-text/268653/2 "2021-03-29T12:50:43Z")

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Fortunately, you can't.

What do you want?

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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:** [April 26, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-we-can-see-our-built-in-users-passwords-in-elasticsearch-in-plain-text/268653/3 "2021-04-26T12:51:32Z")

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