# A kibana startup question

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [December 6, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611 "2022-12-06T16:07:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![laughting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@laughting](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/laughting)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611/1 "2022-12-06T16:07:31Z")

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Why need to configure elasticsearch.password and elasticsaerch.username to start Kibana? What is initialized? Why not login directly through the account and password from the browser？

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611/2 "2022-12-07T03:05:18Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

Because Kibana needs to interact with Elasticsearch in a different way than a user runnings queries would. There's a number of built-in steps that it does to bootstrap itself and maintain it's state.

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**Author:** ![laughting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@laughting](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/laughting)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611/4 "2022-12-08T04:41:38Z")

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Could you be more specific？Can you list more examples?

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**Author:** ![laughting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@laughting](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/laughting)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611/5 "2022-12-08T04:47:39Z")

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Wht not Login directly through the account and password from the browser to maintain it's state？

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611/6 "2022-12-11T20:52:04Z")

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Because then every user would need to be able to write to the `.kibana` index themselves, which is a violation of the least possible privilege principal.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611/7 "2023-01-08T17:39:36Z")

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-kibana-startup-question/320611/8 "2023-02-05T17:40:15Z")

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