# After enabling xpack in ES how do i login in Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [May 7, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530 "2020-05-07T12:00:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![persepherone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/persepherone/32/67874_2.png) [@persepherone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/persepherone)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530/1 "2020-05-07T12:00:47Z")
I have version 7.6 of the ELK stack After enabling Xpack in ES and providing passwords to the elasticsearch-setup-passwords.bat file . Now i added one of the passwords to the kibana.yml file(to connect to ES). Now, kibana is not starting up. it is showing username password. If i try ES credentials here then also it is not working ---
**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:** [May 7, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530/2 "2020-05-07T23:40:27Z")
> [@persepherone](#): > > Now, kibana is not starting up. it is showing username password. So it has started, or it won't even run? ---
**Author:** ![persepherone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/persepherone/32/67874_2.png) [@persepherone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/persepherone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530/3 "2020-05-08T10:47:37Z")
Kibana does starts up but shows a Uid password box....i don't know where to get the login credentials for kibana. i just enabled it in ES now it is asking for the same in Kibana. how do i set passwords in Kibana. ---
**Author:** ![111228](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/111228/32/56505_2.png) [@111228](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/111228)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530/4 "2020-05-08T10:52:10Z")
try to use command and set users for Kibana /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-setup-passwords interactive After this set ![Screenshot from 2020-05-08 13-51-34](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/d/7d2eb44952aaa03f26bce8ec0273c2082a15ff48.png) in kibana.yml ---
**Author:** ![persepherone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/persepherone/32/67874_2.png) [@persepherone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/persepherone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530/5 "2020-05-08T11:06:51Z")
![Kibana error](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/2/02b3329fab4d923a8b62c98c0847eb4cc2acd0ab.jpeg) Already done the above that u mentioned. Now Kibana is also asking for password(view screenshot) .the ones i provided to ES are not working here. ---
**Author:** ![persepherone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/persepherone/32/67874_2.png) [@persepherone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/persepherone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530/6 "2020-05-08T11:08:43Z")
after i try to login uisng ES crendentials , it shows the below error ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/6/d66259b8a0a830b6506aa6cd31e24390df085657.png) ---
**Author:** ![persepherone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/persepherone/32/67874_2.png) [@persepherone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/persepherone)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530/7 "2020-05-09T13:04:32Z")
isseue resolved by using elastic user rather than kibana user ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-xpack-in-es-how-do-i-login-in-kibana/231530/8 "2020-06-06T13:04:51Z")
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