Tim Brooks f2cbe20ea0 Remove default passwords from reserved users (elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch#1665)
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
2017-06-29 15:27:57 -05:00

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[[secure-reporting]]
=== Reporting and Security
Reporting operates by creating and updating documents in Elasticsearch in
response to user actions in Kibana.
To use Reporting with {security} enabled, you need to <<kibana, set up Kibana
to work with {security}>>. If you are automatically generating reports with
<<xpack-alerting, {watcher}>>, you also need to configure {watcher} to trust the
Kibana server's certificate.
//TO-DO: Add link:
//For more information, see {kibana-ref}/securing-reporting.html[Securing Reporting].
[[reporting-app-users]]
To enable users to generate reports, assign them the built in `reporting_user`
and `kibana_user` roles:
* If you're using the `native` realm, you can assign roles through
**Management / Users** UI in Kibana or with the `user` API. For example,
the following request creates a `reporter` user that has the
`reporting_user` and `kibana_user` roles:
+
[source, sh]
---------------------------------------------------------------
POST /_xpack/security/user/reporter
{
"password" : "x-pack-test-password",
"roles" : ["kibana_user", "reporting_user"],
"full_name" : "Reporting User"
}
---------------------------------------------------------------
* If you are using an LDAP or Active Directory realm, you can either assign
roles on a per user basis, or assign roles to groups of users. By default, role
mappings are configured in <<mapping-roles, `config/shield/role_mapping.yml`>>.
For example, the following snippet assigns the user named Bill Murray the
`kibana_user` and `reporting_user` roles:
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[source,yaml]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kibana_user:
- "cn=Bill Murray,dc=example,dc=com"
reporting_user:
- "cn=Bill Murray,dc=example,dc=com"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------