It sounds like you may be running into an issue where when running as a 
service the configuration directory is different that 
$ES_HOME/config/shield. Please see 
"Configuring your 
environment" 
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/shield/current/getting-started.html

On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 10:28:32 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote:
>
> I am able to run bin/elasticsearch and authenticate just fine but whenever 
> I run elasticsearch as a service, I consistently receive the following 
> error:
>
> {
>   "error" : "AuthenticationException[unable to authenticate user 
> [rdeniro] for REST request [/idx1?pretty]]",
>   "status" : 401
> }
>
> I made sure that the $ES_HOME/config/shield/ dir and files were all owned 
> by ES user and tried to dig down to see how the two startup methods differ. 
> Ultimately, it came down to something in 
> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml by comparing the two runtime 
> environments, but haven't been able to make much headway from there.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>

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