# X-Pack Security Not Working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-not-working/110408>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 5, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-not-working/110408 "2017-12-05T18:59:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-not-working/110408/2 "2017-12-06T00:41:43Z")

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It really doesn't look like x-pack is installed on your elasicsearch cluster.

Can you follow these steps:

- Remove the `xpack.security.enabled` line from `config/elasticsearch.yml` (you don't need it, security is enabled by default once x-pack is installed)
- Run this from your elasticsearch installation directory (which will show which plugins are installed on the filesystem)

```auto
bin/elasticsearch-plugin list --verbose

```

- Start Elasticsearch
- And then run this (which will show which plugins are actually running on the cluster)

```auto
curl 'http://localhost:9200/_cat/plugins?v&pretty'

```

- And run this (which tests the most minimal of x-pack functionality)

```auto
curl 'http://localhost:9200/_xpack?categories=features&pretty'

```

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