# Can we bypass the Kibana authentication when we enable xpack secuirty 8.12

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-bypass-the-kibana-authentication-when-we-enable-xpack-secuirty-8-12/356962>\
**Category:** Elastic Security\
**Created:** [April 8, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-bypass-the-kibana-authentication-when-we-enable-xpack-secuirty-8-12/356962 "2024-04-08T11:26:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![D\_Talakola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/d_talakola/32/126856_2.png) [@D\_Talakola](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/D_Talakola)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-bypass-the-kibana-authentication-when-we-enable-xpack-secuirty-8-12/356962/1 "2024-04-08T11:26:55Z")

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Hi Team,

Deployed Elasticsearch 8.12 by enabling xpack security with minimal security option on a k8s cluster. All the Elastic & Kibana pods up and when I tried to view the kibana page, it is asking for authentication(kibana\_system/changeme). Is it possible to bypass this authentication on kibana UI which requires a manual intervention? Can we handle this somewhere in kibana.yml ?

Please share your valuable inputs/thoughts.

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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:** [May 6, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-bypass-the-kibana-authentication-when-we-enable-xpack-secuirty-8-12/356962/2 "2024-05-06T11:27:02Z")

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