Privilege APIs

GET _xpack/security/user/_has_privileges

For a list of the privileges that you can specify in this API, see Security privileges.

A successful call returns a JSON structure that shows whether each specified privilege is assigned to the user.

All users can use this API, but only to determine their own privileges. To check the privileges of other users, you must use the run as feature. For more information, see Submitting requests on behalf of other users.

The following example checks whether the current user has a specific set of cluster and indices privileges:

GET _xpack/security/user/_has_privileges
{
  "cluster": [ "monitor", "manage" ],
  "index" : [
    {
      "names": [ "suppliers", "products" ],
      "privileges": [ "read" ]
    },
    {
      "names": [ "inventory" ],
      "privileges" : [ "read", "write" ]
    }
  ]
}

The following example output indicates which privileges the "rdeniro" user has:

{
  "username": "rdeniro",
  "has_all_requested" : false,
  "cluster" : {
    "monitor" : true,
    "manage" : false
  },
  "index" : {
    "suppliers" : {
      "read" : true
    },
    "products" : {
      "read" : true
    },
    "inventory" : {
      "read" : true,
      "write" : false
    }
  }
}