# Anonymous Access problem in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-access-problem-in-kibana/195290>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [August 15, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-access-problem-in-kibana/195290 "2019-08-15T03:23:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Daniel6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@Daniel6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel6)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-access-problem-in-kibana/195290/1 "2019-08-15T03:23:39Z")

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Hi Elastic team,  
My ELK version is 7.2 and running on CentOS7.  
I have configured x-pack security and it works perfectly.  
But in official demo web [official kibana demo](https://demo.elastic.co/app/kibana#/home?_g=()) .  
I found that there is **no login page** and visitors will **auto login** with a user 'Guest User'.

What I would like to implement is:

1. Let visitors **auto login** with my self-defined Guest User **when visiting Kibana page** , just like in [official kibana demo](https://demo.elastic.co/app/kibana#/home?_g=()) .

2. When **clicking logout** , it will **redirect to login page** so administrators could login with their admin users(more privileges).

I only found [doc](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/7.2/anonymous-access.html) and [Anonymous access](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18331) but it doesn't work.  
Is it possible to do?

Thank You!  
Daniel.

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-access-problem-in-kibana/195290/2 "2019-08-15T21:31:32Z")

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The only way to really get proper anonymous access working in Kibana right now is to use a reverse proxy to provide the Basic Auth headers. I think you could then simply pass through requests that already have security credentials so that an admin could log in to their own account and still access Kibana.

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**Author:** ![Daniel6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@Daniel6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel6)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-access-problem-in-kibana/195290/3 "2019-08-16T07:59:29Z")

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Hi Bargs,  
Thanks for your suggestion. 🙂  
I also found this [Anonymous access to Kibana using nginx](https://medium.com/@saurabhiiti123/anonymous-access-to-kibana-dashboard-using-nginx-a-workaround-a1896b44c4c8) .  
But it doesn't allow logout.  
I will keep studying about this.

Thank You!  
Daniel.

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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:** [September 13, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-access-problem-in-kibana/195290/4 "2019-09-13T07:59:31Z")

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