# Auto-authenticating to iframe-embedded Kibana dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-authenticating-to-iframe-embedded-kibana-dashboard/46091>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 1, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-authenticating-to-iframe-embedded-kibana-dashboard/46091 "2016-04-01T19:05:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-authenticating-to-iframe-embedded-kibana-dashboard/46091/4 "2016-09-14T20:15:00Z")

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You can pass the Authorization header as Joe suggests using an nginx proxy.

Here is the relevant section of my nginx.conf:

```auto
 server {
     listen 4443 ssl; # the default was port 443
     server_name tim-virtual-machine.local;

     ssl_certificate /home/tim/domain.crt;
     ssl_certificate_key /home/tim/domain.key;

     ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
     ssl_session_timeout 5m;

     ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
     ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

     location / {
         proxy_set_header Host $host;
         proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
         proxy_set_header Authorization "Basic cGFudHM6b25maXJl"; # base64-encoded username:password to pass in header
         proxy_pass https://tim-virtual-machine.local:5601; # actual kibana URL
     }
 }

```

I got this mostly from following this tutorial: [http://shairosenfeld.blogspot.com/2011/03/authorization-header-in-nginx-for.html](http://shairosenfeld.blogspot.com/2011/03/authorization-header-in-nginx-for.html)

I generated the Base64 string out of the `username:password` combination with this unix one-liner:

```auto
echo -n username:password | base64

```

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