This creates a new "beats_system" user and role with the same
privileges as the existing "logstash_system" user/role.
The "beat_system" user is also added as a managed user within
the "setup-passwords" command.
Users who upgrade from an earlier version of Elasticsearch/X-Pack
will need to manually set a password for the beats_system user via
the change password API (or Kibana UI)
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@6087d3a18e
This commit removes the system key from master and changes watcher to use a secure setting instead
for the encryption key.
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@5ac95c60ef
This is related to elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch#1217. This PR removes the default password of
"changeme" from the reserved users.
This PR adds special behavior for authenticating the reserved users. No
ReservedRealm user can be authenticated until its password is set. The
one exception to this is the elastic user. The elastic user can be
authenticated with an empty password if the action is a rest request
originating from localhost. In this scenario where an elastic user is
authenticated with a default password, it will have metadata indicating
that it is in setup mode. An elastic user in setup mode is only
authorized to execute a change password request.
Original commit: elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch@e1e101a237
Lisa Cawley
Tim Vernum
Jay Modi
Deb Adair
Tim Brooks