This plugin provides an extension of ElasticSearchs HTTP Transport module to enable HTTP Basic authorization.

Copy elasticsearch-http-basic-<version>.jar to plugins/http-basic. Or use bin/plugin to do so.

The plugin is disabled by default. Enabling basic authorization will disable the default HTTP Transport module.

http.basic.enabled = true http.basic.user = "my_username" http.basic.password = "my_password" 

Be aware that the password is stored in plain text.

$ curl -v --user my_username:my_password localhost:9200 # works $ curl -v --user my_username:password localhost:9200 # sends 403