what is the purpose of Hash key

Hi,

I just wnated to know why do we need hashed key in searchguard user configuration.

what if i do not generate a hash key for a user? will it still have the access and roles attached to it.

and my second question is do we have togenerate hash key for the users of LDAP.

how do we manage it.

The hash is the hashes password of the user. If you do not set it the user cannot log in.

You can generate password hashes with the hash.sh script in the tools folder of the Search Guard plugin. Or you can generate it by using any tool that is capable of generating a BCrypt hash.

You don’t need a password hash for LDAP users.

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On Monday, November 19, 2018 at 12:22:02 PM UTC+1, Manjushree Gokhale wrote:

Hi,

I just wnated to know why do we need hashed key in searchguard user configuration.

what if i do not generate a hash key for a user? will it still have the access and roles attached to it.

and my second question is do we have togenerate hash key for the users of LDAP.

how do we manage it.