From afffea96548fac603857bec746831dbf37d754aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert Zaharovits Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:55:48 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [DOCS] secure settings specified per node --- docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc b/docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc index 78731f7663d11..82a941aad256b 100644 --- a/docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ Elasticsearch. NOTE: The elasticsearch keystore currently only provides obfuscation. In the future, password protection will be added. +These settings, just like the ones in the regular `elasticsearch.yml` config file, +need to be specified for each cluster node. These are node-specific settings, +although they usually have the same value on every node. + [float] [[creating-keystore]] === Creating the keystore From b76d9a23fb296471c1677db9f27df84b0716a2e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert Zaharovits Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:25:34 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Addressed feedback --- docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc b/docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc index 82a941aad256b..1474ba137697d 100644 --- a/docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/setup/secure-settings.asciidoc @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[secure-settings]] -=== Secure Settings +=== Secure settings Some settings are sensitive, and relying on filesystem permissions to protect their values is not sufficient. For this use case, Elasticsearch provides a @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ Elasticsearch. NOTE: The elasticsearch keystore currently only provides obfuscation. In the future, password protection will be added. -These settings, just like the ones in the regular `elasticsearch.yml` config file, -need to be specified for each cluster node. These are node-specific settings, -although they usually have the same value on every node. +These settings, just like the regular ones in the `elasticsearch.yml` config file, +need to be specified on each node in the cluster. Currently, all secure settings +are node-specific settings that must have the same value on every node. [float] [[creating-keystore]]