diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/login/login.html b/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/login/login.html
index 775fbbc9f7c77..518cd94675462 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/login/login.html
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/login/login.html
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
   </div>
 
   <div class="euiText loginErrorXpackUnavailable" ng-if="login.layout === 'error-xpack-unavailable'">
-    <p class="euiTitle euiTitle--medium euiTextColor euiTextColor--danger">Cannot connect to an Elasticsearch cluster running the OSS distribution from an instance of Kibana that has a Basic license or above.</p>
-    <p>Upgrade Elasticsearch to the default distribution, or use the OSS version of Kibana.</p>
+    <p class="euiTitle euiTitle--small">It appears you're running the oss-only distribution of Elasticsearch.</p>
+    <p class="euiTitle euiTitle--small">To use the full set of free features in this distribution of Kibana, please update Elasticsearch to the <a href="https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch">default distribution</a>.</p>
     <p>Refresh to try again.</p>
   </div>
 
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/login/login.less b/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/login/login.less
index 2336833640116..e00902e910f35 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/login/login.less
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/login/login.less
@@ -120,6 +120,6 @@ input.form-control {
 
 .loginErrorEsUnavailable,
 .loginErrorXpackUnavailable  {
-  width: 550px;
+  width: 600px;
   z-index: 10;
 }
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