# Authentication and head/bigdesk plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authentication-and-head-bigdesk-plugin/7192>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 2, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authentication-and-head-bigdesk-plugin/7192 "2012-04-02T01:12:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_Uckun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tim_uckun/32/1256_2.png) [@Tim\_Uckun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tim_Uckun)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authentication-and-head-bigdesk-plugin/7192/1 "2012-04-02T01:12:09Z")

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Hey Guys.

I have elastic search installed. I also installed http-basic for  
authentication and both head and bigdesk to see what they are like.  
Unfortunately once the http-basic is installed neither of the other plugins  
work. I then tried to install the jetty plugin but it seems to be crashing  
with a out of memory error (see below)

Basically I need to use this tire and I want to have some sort of  
authentication. What's the best way to do this?

Thanks.

[Rattler] Exception caught on netty layer [[id: 0x500150a0,  
/202.49.168.172:30005 =\> /10.65.0.108:9300]]  
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.HeapChannelBuffer.(HeapChannelBuffer.java:42)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer.(BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer.java:34)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers.buffer(ChannelBuffers.java:134)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.HeapChannelBufferFactory.getBuffer(HeapChannelBufferFactory.java:69)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer.(DynamicChannelBuffer.java:58)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers.dynamicBuffer(ChannelBuffers.java:221)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.MessageChannelHandler.messageReceived(MessageChannelHandler.java:98)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:75)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:558)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:777)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.OpenChannelsHandler.handleUpstream(OpenChannelsHandler.java:74)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:558)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:553)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:268)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:255)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.read(NioWorker.java:343)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.processSelectedKeys(NioWorker.java:274)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.run(NioWorker.java:194)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.ThreadRenamingRunnable.run(ThreadRenamingRunnable.java:102)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker$1.run(DeadLockProofWorker.java:42)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)

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**Author:** ![AEvar\_Arnfjord\_Bjarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aevar_arnfjord_bjarm/32/2746_2.png) [@AEvar\_Arnfjord\_Bjarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AEvar_Arnfjord_Bjarm)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authentication-and-head-bigdesk-plugin/7192/2 "2012-04-02T11:24:37Z")

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On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 03:12, Tim Uckun [timuckun@gmail.com](mailto:timuckun@gmail.com) wrote:

> Basically I need to use this tire and I want to have some sort of  
> authentication. What's the best way to do this?

Where I work we provide authentication to those by using Apache's  
mod\_proxy + LDAP auth, not by using any ES plugin.

I think you'll probably find that simpler to set up.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authentication-and-head-bigdesk-plugin/7192/3 "2017-07-06T03:33:57Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:33am UTC