Security APIs

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To use the security APIs, you must set xpack.security.enabled to true in the elasticsearch.yml file.

Use the following APIs to perform security activities.

Application privileges

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Use the following APIs to add, update, retrieve, and remove application privileges:

Role mappings

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Use the following APIs to add, remove, update, and retrieve role mappings:

Roles

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Use the following APIs to add, remove, update, and retrieve roles in the native realm:

Tokens

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Use the following APIs to create and invalidate bearer tokens for access without requiring basic authentication:

API Keys

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Use the following APIs to create, retrieve and invalidate API keys for access without requiring basic authentication:

Users

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Use the following APIs to add, remove, update, or retrieve users in the native realm:

Service Accounts

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Use the following APIs to list service accounts and manage the service tokens:

OpenID Connect

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Use the following APIs to authenticate users against an OpenID Connect authentication realm when using a custom web application other than Kibana

SAML

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Use the following APIs to authenticate users against a SAML authentication realm when using a custom web application other than Kibana

Enrollment

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Use the following APIs to enable new nodes to join an existing cluster with security enabled, or to enable a Kibana instance to configure itself to communicate with a secured Elasticsearch cluster.

User Profile

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This feature is in development and not yet available for use. This documentation is provided for informational purposes only.

Use the following APIs to retrieve and manage user profiles.