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[role="xpack"]
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[[controlling-user-cache]]
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=== Controlling the user cache
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User credentials are cached in memory on each node to avoid connecting to a
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remote authentication service or hitting the disk for every incoming request.
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You can configure characteristics of the user cache with the `cache.ttl`,
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`cache.max_users`, and `cache.hash_algo` realm settings.
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NOTE: PKI realms do not cache user credentials but do cache the resolved user
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object to avoid unnecessarily needing to perform role mapping on each request.
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The cached user credentials are hashed in memory. By default, {security} uses a
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salted `sha-256` hash algorithm. You can use a different hashing algorithm by
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setting the `cache.hash_algo` realm settings. See
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{ref}/security-settings.html#hashing-settings[User cache and password hash algorithms].
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[[cache-eviction-api]]
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==== Evicting users from the cache
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{security} exposes a
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{ref}/security-api-clear-cache.html[Clear Cache API] you can use
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to force the eviction of cached users. For example, the following request evicts
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all users from the `ad1` realm:
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[source, js]
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$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_xpack/security/realm/ad1/_clear_cache'
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To clear the cache for multiple realms, specify the realms as a comma-separated
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list:
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[source, js]
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$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_xpack/security/realm/ad1,ad2/_clear_cache'
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------------------------------------------------------------
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You can also evict specific users:
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[source, java]
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$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_xpack/security/realm/ad1/_clear_cache?usernames=rdeniro,alpacino'
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