# Controlling users to change the Kibana dashboard settings and saving **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 1, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controlling-users-to-change-the-kibana-dashboard-settings-and-saving/21006 "2014-12-01T13:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pillalamarri\_Kaushik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pillalamarri\_Kaushik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pillalamarri_Kaushik)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controlling-users-to-change-the-kibana-dashboard-settings-and-saving/21006/1 "2014-12-01T13:21:22Z")
Hi All, I would like to control the changes that are being made to the Kibana dashboard by users. I would like to authenticate the user doing that by asking for username and password before making changes or before saving the changes made. I am using windows operating system. Kindly help me on this by throwing some insights on the same. Thanks, Kaushik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fd04b909-4fec-40ed-887e-e9be5a2245f2%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fd04b909-4fec-40ed-887e-e9be5a2245f2%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controlling-users-to-change-the-kibana-dashboard-settings-and-saving/21006/2 "2014-12-22T06:51:54Z")
On Monday, December 01, 2014 at 14:21 CET, Pillalamarri Kaushik [aghamarshan@gmail.com](mailto:aghamarshan@gmail.com) wrote: > I would like to control the changes that are being made to the Kibana > dashboard by users. I would like to authenticate the user doing that > by asking for username and password before making changes or before > saving the changes made. > I am using windows operating system. Kibana and Elasticsearch don't have any access control features (but the upcoming companion product Shield does; it might eventually help you). You'll have to add authentication on top of them, e.g. by configuring your web browser to require authentication for POST, PUT, and/or DELETE requests to the kibana-int index. Depending on how capable your web server is You may have to write a custom reverse proxy for this. -- Magnus Bäck | Software Engineer, Development Tools [magnus.back@sonymobile.com](mailto:magnus.back@sonymobile.com) | Sony Mobile Communications -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/20141222065154.GE11963%40seldlx20533.corpusers.net](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/20141222065154.GE11963%40seldlx20533.corpusers.net). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controlling-users-to-change-the-kibana-dashboard-settings-and-saving/21006/3 "2017-07-06T00:42:26Z")