Unable to delete elasticsearch indices

1

When i tried to delete the kibana index with curl -u admin:password http://localhost:9200/* -XDELETE | jq, I am getting the following

{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "reason": "forbidden",
        "due_to": [
          "OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "reason": "forbidden",
    "due_to": [
      "OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED"
    ],
    "status": 401
  }
}

readonly rest config

readonlyrest:
        access_control_rules:
                - name: "Require HTTP Basic Auth"
                  type: allow
                  auth_key: user:password
2

you got the credentials wrong: it’s user, not admin.