Would you like to learn how to recover the Elasticsearch admin password? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use the ElasticSearch password recovery procedure to change the password of the admin user using the command-line of a computer running Ubuntu Linux.
• Ubuntu 18
• Ubuntu 19
• ElasticSearch 7.6.2
In our example, The ElastiSearch server IP address is 192.168.100.7.
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Tutorial ElasticSearch – Password Recovery
First, we need to access the ElasticSearch server as Root user.
Use the following command to install the required packages.
Stop the ElasticSearch service.
Locate the command named: elasticsearch-users
Here is the command output.
Create a new local administrator account on the ElasticSearch server.
In our example, we create a new local administrator account named Newadmin.
In our example, the password set to the account named Newadmin was Kamisama123.
Start the ElasticSearch service.
Use the local administrator account to change the password of the account named Elastic.
In our example, we changed the Elastic account password to kamisama123.
Try to authenticate on the ElasticSearch server using the Elastic account and the new password.
Here is the command output.
Congratulations! You successfully recovered the password of the ElasticSearch user named Elastic.
