Hi, while running sg_admin.sh it is auto closing with Error:could not load main class com.floragunn.searchguard.tools.SearchGuardAdmin
Installed through install plugin command, version 7.10.2
Created demo certificates with install_demo_configuration.sh
My Major concern is to change/delete admin pwd/account, so changed pwd hash in internal_users.yml file to update these config trying to run sg_admin.
Is there any alternate to delete/modify admin user from SG?
SG_ADMIN.SH File content :
#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_PATH="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
if ! [ -x "$(command -v realpath)" ]; then
if [ -L "$SCRIPT_PATH" ]; then
[ -x "$(command -v readlink)" ] || { echo "Not able to resolve symlink. Install realpath or readlink." 1>&2;exit 1; }
# try readlink (-f not needed because we know its a symlink)
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname $(readlink "$SCRIPT_PATH") )" && pwd -P)"
else
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "$SCRIPT_PATH" )" && pwd -P)"
fi
else
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "$(realpath "$SCRIPT_PATH")" )" && pwd -P)"
fi
BIN_PATH="java"
if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
echo "WARNING: JAVA_HOME not set, will use $(which $BIN_PATH)" 1>&2
else
BIN_PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
fi
"$BIN_PATH" $JAVA_OPTS -Dio.netty.tryReflectionSetAccessible=false -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true -Dorg.apache.logging.log4j.simplelog.StatusLogger.level=OFF -cp "$DIR/../*:$DIR/../../../lib/*:$DIR/../deps/*" com.floragunn.searchguard.tools.SearchGuardAdmin "$@"
@sivakumarreddy2026
Can you list the files in your plugin/search-guard/tools. directory? The demo install should have created a demo file that can be used. But there doesn’t seem to be a sg_admin.sh.
Can you also paste the command you use to execute the script and the full output that is produced.
There might also be inconsistency with JDK, as ES now comes with its own. If you have the sgadmin_demo.sh script you could update it as follows to use the ES JDK:
content in sgadmin.sh
#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_PATH=“${BASH_SOURCE[0]}”
if ! [ -x “$(command -v realpath)” ]; then
if [ -L “$SCRIPT_PATH” ]; then
[ -x "$(command -v readlink)" ] || { echo "Not able to resolve symlink. Install realpath or readlink." 1>&2;exit 1; }
# try readlink (-f not needed because we know its a symlink)
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname $(readlink "$SCRIPT_PATH") )" && pwd -P)"
else
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "$SCRIPT_PATH" )" && pwd -P)"
fi
else
DIR=“$( cd “$( dirname “$(realpath “$SCRIPT_PATH”)” )” && pwd -P)”
fi
BIN_PATH=“java”
if [ -z “$JAVA_HOME” ]; then
echo “WARNING: JAVA_HOME not set, will use $(which $BIN_PATH)” 1>&2
else
BIN_PATH=“$JAVA_HOME/bin/java”
fi
Can you try to update sgadmin_demo.sh script as per the earlier message and run sgadmin_demo.sh (no additional parameters are necessary, as you can see it already points to the relevant certs etc)
ERROR
Error: Could not find or load main class com.floragunn.searchguard.tools.SearchGuardAdmin
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.floragunn.searchguard.tools.SearchGuardAdmin
ERROR
Error: Could not find or load main class com.floragunn.searchguard.tools.SearchGuardAdmin
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.floragunn.searchguard.tools.SearchGuardAdmin
that is the only error coming in bash command line
content in sgadmin.bat @echo off
set SCRIPT_DIR=%~dp0
“%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java” -Dio.netty.tryReflectionSetAccessible=false -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true -Dorg.apache.logging.log4j.simplelog.StatusLogger.level=OFF -cp “%SCRIPT_DIR%....\search-guard-ssl*;%SCRIPT_DIR%..\deps*;%SCRIPT_DIR%..*;%SCRIPT_DIR%......\lib*” com.floragunn.searchguard.tools.SearchGuardAdmin %*
are we need to change anything??
ERROR
Search Guard Admin v7
ERR: Parsing failed. Reason: Specify at least -ks or -cert
You will need to provide all the same parameters as with previous script:
-cd “F:/ELK/7.11.2/elasticsearch-7.11.2/plugins/search-guard-7/sgconfig” -icl -key “F:/ELK/7.11.2/elasticsearch-7.11.2/config/kirk-key.pem” -cert “F:/ELK/7.11.2/elasticsearch-7.11.2/config/kirk.pem” -cacert “F:/ELK/7.11.2/elasticsearch-7.11.2/config/root-ca.pem” -nhnv
