# Any way to give role based access to kibana indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-give-role-based-access-to-kibana-indices/104092>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 16, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-give-role-based-access-to-kibana-indices/104092 "2017-10-16T13:18:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aparna\_Thomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Aparna\_Thomas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aparna_Thomas)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-give-role-based-access-to-kibana-indices/104092/1 "2017-10-16T13:18:32Z")

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Is there any way to give role based access (like admin,user1,user2 etc.) to different kibana indices other than using X-pack or Shield plugin

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**Author:** ![Court](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/court/32/6640_2.png) [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-give-role-based-access-to-kibana-indices/104092/2 "2017-10-17T10:21:07Z")

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X-Pack is the only supported security solution for Kibana. Some people do build authentication and potentially authorization solutions using reverse proxies, but RBAC in particular is a hard thing to implement securely outside the context of a kibana/elasticsearch plugin.

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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:** [November 14, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-give-role-based-access-to-kibana-indices/104092/3 "2017-11-14T10:21:08Z")

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