# Connecting Sense (4.6.4) with username and password
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-sense-4-6-4-with-username-and-password/86258
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 18, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-sense-4-6-4-with-username-and-password/86258 "2017-05-18T12:40:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Shai\_Erera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shai_Erera)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-sense-4-6-4-with-username-and-password/86258/1 "2017-05-18T12:40:12Z")
Hi. I've installed Kibana 4.6.4 and the Sense plugin (I need to connect to an ES 2.4.5 instance). Connecting to an unsecured localhost:9200 works fine but I'm unable to find information how to configure Sense to connect to a remote instance with username/password. FWIW, `curl -u "user:pass"` works fine.
Can anyone help with (1) is this even supported? and (2) how can I achieve that?
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### Author:  [@Shai\_Erera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shai_Erera)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-sense-4-6-4-with-username-and-password/86258/2 "2017-05-18T12:53:28Z")
Hmm ... so I just tried Sense by typing the https://... URL and the browser then prompted me for the user/password and it worked. I also had to add this to kibana.yml
```auto
sense.proxyConfig:
- match:
protocol: "https"
ssl:
verify: false # allows any certificate to be used, even self-signed certs
- timeout: 180000 # 3 minutes
```
From the Sense installation guide. So I guess no additional steps are required.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-sense-4-6-4-with-username-and-password/86258/3 "2017-06-15T12:53:45Z")
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