Can not get to security setting in kibana on a basic licence

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hi guys,

So under management in Kibana I cannot seem to get to any of the security settings (the option does not appear in the menu). I have enabled xpack security settings.

If I go through the dashboard to security this is what appears:

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Any ideas?
Thanks!

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HI,
As the error suggests in the screenshot, the user does not have enough permissions to access users. The security features provide a role-based access control (RBAC) mechanism, which enables you to authorize users by assigning privileges to roles and assigning roles to users or groups. You can create a superuser to login to see how to access users and roles. You can read about it more here:

Thanks
Rashmi

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Hi Rashmi,

Is there a way to see who I am logged in as? I haven't had to log in and so I don't even know how to grant this user account superuser rights.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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What kind of license is this stack on ?

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/get-license.html

Thanks
Rashmi

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The basic licence.

Thanks,
EJ

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"status" : "active"
"type" : "basic"

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Plz enable Security on your basic license to get access to users and roles. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/get-started-enable-security.html

Thanks
Rashmi

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I have already done this, in the elasticsearch.yml file I have the line:
xpack.security.enabled: true

But this has not worked.

Thanks,
EJ

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Have you completed the entire exercise like setting up passwords for built in users ?

Set the built-in users' passwords.

Run the following command from the Elasticsearch directory:

./bin/elasticsearch-setup-passwords interactive

Please follow the link I sent above to configure security .

Thanks
Rashmi

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We have tried that, it has already been done once. But if we try to run it again we get a message saying X-Pack Secuirty is not available. Which is odd because we have enabled it.

Thanks,
EJ

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Hey @Ej_R,

You can find the user you're logged in as by navigating to the top right of Kibana and clicking the circle:

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Can you post your full kibana.yml, redacting any sensitive information such as passwords?

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Hiya,
My display looks slightly different to yours:

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I shall post the yml file as well.

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You are using version 6.6.2, in which security is not part of the basic license. You will need to upgrade to 6.8.

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Okay, how do I go about this? Can I just upgrade or are there any requirement before upgrade?

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I have upgraded both Kibana and elastic search to 7.2 but it is now coming up with:
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Any ideas on what is causing this? I have used the curl command to check if elastic search is running, and have worked out it only runs when I get rid of the enable xpack security line. So I can't configure security at the moment (not that it currently matters as I can't even get onto the kibana dashboard)

Thanks,
EJ

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Hey @Ej_R, how long has Kibana been in this state? Can you post your full kibana log file?

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Hi Larry,
Since I upgraded it today to 7.2i I'll post it now.

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Hiya,

I just checked the Kibana file and we did not have logging enabled.

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Ok, please enable logging, and restart the Kibana process. You can use the logging.dest setting to specify a file where Kibana should log to. While you're at it, set logging.verbose: true in your kibana.yml too. That will give us the most information so that we can help you further.

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I have enabled it, restarted the service but I am waiting for logs to appear.

Thanks!
EJ :slight_smile: