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Create passwords for built-in users

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Create passwords for built-in users

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There are built-in users that you can use for specific administrative purposes: elastic, kibana, logstash_system, and beats_system.

Before you can use them, you must set their passwords:

Restart Elasticsearch. For example, if you installed Elasticsearch with a .tar.gz package, run the following command from the Elasticsearch directory:
```
./bin/elasticsearch
```
See Starting Elasticsearch.
Set the built-in users' passwords. Run the following command from the Elasticsearch directory:
```
./bin/elasticsearch-setup-passwords interactive
```

You need these built-in users in subsequent steps, so choose passwords that you can remember!

This tutorial does not use the built-in logstash_system and beats_system users, which are typically associated with monitoring. For more information, see Configuring credentials for Logstash monitoring and Monitoring Metricbeat.

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