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Docs: Clarify password protection support with keystore
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rjernst committed Jan 9, 2018
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Some settings are sensitive, and relying on filesystem permissions to protect
their values is not sufficient. For this use case, Elasticsearch provides a
keystore, which may be password protected, and the `elasticsearch-keystore`
tool to manage the settings in the keystore.
keystore and the `elasticsearch-keystore` tool to manage the settings in the keystore.

NOTE: All commands here should be run as the user which will run Elasticsearch.

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NOTE: All the modifications to the keystore take affect only after restarting
Elasticsearch.

NOTE: The elasticsearch keystore currently only provides obfuscation. In the future,
password protection will be added.

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