# Admin account for Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/admin-account-for-kibana/272779>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 12, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/admin-account-for-kibana/272779 "2021-05-12T08:17:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/admin-account-for-kibana/272779/2 "2021-05-12T16:17:59Z")

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Hi Aleksandr,

Do you still have the password for the "elastic" user?

If you have it you can simply log in as the "elastic" user and administer users and access rights.

That will also allow you to create a new admin account.

If you lost the credentials you can find instructions how to reset the password here: [X-Pack Authentication issue - #7 by TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-authentication-issue/121632/7)

Hope that helps!

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