# Access control of Kibana saved objects, e.g. search/visualization/dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-control-of-kibana-saved-objects-e-g-search-visualization-dashboard/142650>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 1, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-control-of-kibana-saved-objects-e-g-search-visualization-dashboard/142650 "2018-08-01T20:32:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tiger\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@Tiger\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tiger_Wang)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-control-of-kibana-saved-objects-e-g-search-visualization-dashboard/142650/1 "2018-08-01T20:32:01Z")

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I don't find a trivial answer, thus giving it a try here.

My scenarios are typical: I want to share a Kibana search/visualization/dashboard object with my colleagues, but they should have read-only access to these objects.

I am a paid customer to [Elastic.co](http://Elastic.co) cloud.

Any link to how to do this?

Thanks,

Tiger

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-control-of-kibana-saved-objects-e-g-search-visualization-dashboard/142650/2 "2018-08-01T23:36:50Z")

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Hi Tiger,

Generally when a user has read/write privilege to the `.kibana` index which stores saved objects, they have read/write privilege to any document in the index. If your colleagues only require read access and you want them to be able to read certain documents, I hear that some groups have been able to use the Document Level Security feature to create roles with restricted access to certain documents: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/field-and-document-access-control.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/field-and-document-access-control.html)

You may have not found a trivial answer on this subject because this is where Kibana needs to have a layer of security on top of what is provided by the Elasticsearch capabilities. It's part of the Kibana platform currently being worked on with the Spaces feature: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18948](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18948).

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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:** [August 29, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-control-of-kibana-saved-objects-e-g-search-visualization-dashboard/142650/3 "2018-08-29T23:36:51Z")

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