# Auth
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auth/4920
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 21, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auth/4920 "2011-07-21T15:15:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ajsie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajsie)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auth/4920/1 "2011-07-21T15:15:17Z")
Are there any plans implementing authentication/authorization in ES so
that I can use it from my browser just like CouchDB?
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### Author:  [@James\_Cook](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/James_Cook)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auth/4920/2 "2011-07-21T16:33:53Z")
> **[Issues · elastic/elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/search?q=authentication)**
>
> Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine. Contribute to elastic/elasticsearch development by creating an account on GitHub.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:15 AM, ajsie [johnny.weng.luu@gmail.com](mailto:johnny.weng.luu@gmail.com) wrote:
> Are there any plans implementing authentication/authorization in ES so
> that I can use it from my browser just like CouchDB?
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### Author:  [@karmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karmi)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auth/4920/3 "2011-07-21T21:50:56Z")
I don't think support for auth in ES itself is needed. ES embraces
HTTP, and interesting stuff (not only auth) can be done with reverse
proxies; see [Route requests to ElasticSearch to authenticated user's own index with an Nginx reverse-proxy · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/986390)
Karel
On Jul 21, 6:33 pm, James Cook [jc...@tracermedia.com](mailto:jc...@tracermedia.com) wrote:
> [Issues · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/search?q=authen)...
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:15 AM, ajsie [johnny.weng....@gmail.com](mailto:johnny.weng....@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Are there any plans implementing authentication/authorization in ES so
> > that I can use it from my browser just like CouchDB?
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### Author:  [@ajsie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajsie)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auth/4920/4 "2011-07-21T22:58:58Z")
Good example. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auth/4920/5 "2017-07-06T03:59:51Z")