# X-Pack Run As documentation incorrect
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-run-as-documentation-incorrect/52481
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 10, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-run-as-documentation-incorrect/52481 "2016-06-10T20:52:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Adam\_Stortz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adam_Stortz)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-run-as-documentation-incorrect/52481/1 "2016-06-10T20:52:51Z")
The [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/v5.0.0-alpha3-docs/run-as-privilege.html) for how to run a request as a given user for X-Pack 5.0.0-alpha3 suggests it can be done by setting the header 'es-security-runas-user'. However, this does not work.
The Shield 2.3 [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/submitting-requests-for-other-users.html) references a different header to use: 'es-shield-runas-user'.
The second header 'es-shield-runas-user' works in X-Pack 5.0.0-alpha3.
It seems like the former is the X-Pack way of doing this, but there appears to be a bug or incomplete functionality update.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-run-as-documentation-incorrect/52481/2 "2016-06-13T04:38:07Z")
Thanks for pointing this out, I have raised it internally (as the repo isn't public).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-run-as-documentation-incorrect/52481/3 "2017-07-06T13:41:01Z")