Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Role management APIs

This provides a set of APIs to create, update, remove, and retrieve roles from the native realm.

The list of APIs available is as follows:

GET /_xpack/security/role                               -- To retrieve the list of all roles GET /_xpack/security/role/<rolename>                        -- To retrieve details of a specific rolePOST /_xpack/security/role/<rolename>/_clear_cache          -- To evict/clear roles from the native role cachePOST /_xpack/security/role/<rolename>                       -- To create a rolePUT /_xpack/security/role/<rolename>                        -- To update an existing role

The rolename in the path parameter specifies the role against which the operation is carried out. The body of the request accepts parameters such as cluster, which accepts a list of cluster privileges; indices, which accepts ...