API-Key generation API is missing

[SebastianGode]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Instead of using normal user+password authentication I would like to have an never expiring API key as Elasticsearch also offers. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.16/security-api-create-api-key.html Currently I have not found any way to generate such a key as the security plugin does not have such an option yet: https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/security-plugin/access-control/api/

Describe the solution you'd like It would be great to have an Elasticsearch compatible API for generating API-keys

[jcannell]

Was just looking for this feature today...would love to have this.

[maddisondavid]

+1 I was also searching around thinking I'd missed something in the documentation!

[feli0821]

+1 also looking for this feature

[jansyren]

+1 yes this would be a great feature, lots of applications writing to elastic has this support so adding it to Opensearch would be a good improvement.

[djfranzelttec]

Would be an excellent feature to have.

[emollusion]

+1 on this one, good to have when implementing "machine to machine" where cert auth is not possible.

[bidetzz]

+1 this feature would be a great addition

[nundys]

+1