I'm having an issue with the Shield plugin for Elasticsearch. I have installed elasticsearch so that it runs as a service, and I can see that it is running on port 9200.
If I enter curl http://localhost:9200 in my Mac terminal I get the correct elasticsearch output...
Recently I have been trying to upgrade from basic authentication to shield authentication. I installed shield and license using the following commands:
/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin install license/latest
/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin install shield/latest
This successfull installs shield and license plugins. They are contained within my /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins directory on my Vagrant box.
So, now if I try to use curl -XGET http://localhost:9200 again, I get the following response:
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication token for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm=\"shield\""}}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication token for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm=\"shield\""}},"status":401}
This is good. I can not reach elasticsearch without proper authentication. So now I want to create a user to authenticate to elasticsearch. I use the command:
sudo ./esusers useradd testuser -p password -r admin
This creates a user 'testuser' with password 'password' with admin privileges.
I can verify that this user has been created using the following command:
sudo ./esusers list
This returns:
testuser : admin
So I now try to run the curl command again with this user:
curl -u testuser:password -XGET http://localhost:9200
But I get the same error message as before when I tried without the admin user.
What is the issue here? Why is my admin user not authenticating?