Can't add an admin in elasticsearch Shield [Error]: Could not find or load main class org.elasticsearch.shield.authc.esusers.tool.ESUsersTool

Question

Good Morning

I am trying since yesterday to add an admin account to the elasticsearch 2.4 shield plugin. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 on one node and Ubuntu 16.04 on the two other nodes. I have installed the Shield plugin on my Logstash Server and there it worked. On my Elasticsearch Server I have installed the Java Version:

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-b14)

I tried the command:

sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/shield/esusers useradd esadm -r admin

I am always getting the error:

Could not find or load main class org.elasticsearch.shield.authc.esusers.tool.ESUsersTool

I installed the Shield Plugin on all three Nodes and restarted the elasticsearch service on all nodes and I also rebooted all three nodes :)

Anyone an Idea?

PS: I have done the steps of the question: Can't add admin in Shield Elasticsearch - [Error]Could not find or load main class org.elasticsearch.shield.authc.esusers.tool.ESUsersTool and it's still not working.

Answer 1

Did you add path.plugins to your elasticsearch.yml? I have the same problem with you. And after I removed path.plugins, it works.