# Creating kibana users

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-users/221414>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-users/221414 "2020-02-28T11:30:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![vidhyadhara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c0e974/32.png) [@vidhyadhara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vidhyadhara)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-users/221414/1 "2020-02-28T11:30:20Z")

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Hello All,  
I'm using AWS elasticsearch service which provides kibana version 7.1.1  
I have couple of doubts,  
right now I've 2 Accounts(Say A & B). Account A has 4 dashboards and Account B has 1 dashboard.  
I want to create another 2 user(Say user1 and user2) for Account A (user1) and Account B (user2) such that the users should only be able to view dashboards and not edit it.

Looking forward for some help...Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-users/221414/2 "2020-03-12T17:37:57Z")

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> [@vidhyadhara](#):
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> t A has 4 dashboards a

The user needs read access to the `.kibana` index in order to see the dashboards available. Create users such that they have read only access to the dashboards: I would give the users `read` and `view_index_metadata` roles . More info can be found here on privileges.

> **[Security Privileges | X-Pack for the Elastic Stack \[6.2\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/security-privileges.html#privileges-list-indices)**

Thanks  
Rashmi

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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:** [April 9, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-users/221414/3 "2020-04-09T17:38:04Z")

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