# Disable Kibana login for user elastic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-login-for-user-elastic/257365>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [December 2, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-login-for-user-elastic/257365 "2020-12-02T14:20:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![ajesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajesh)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-login-for-user-elastic/257365/1 "2020-12-02T14:20:29Z")

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Hi Team,

Could you please let me know if there are any tweaks that can be done is elasticsearch or kibana to only disable kibana UI login for user `elastic`. Currently we are using user `elastic` in beats to send the logs to elasticsearch. We have 1000+ servers, hence changing user or password in beats is a hell lot of work.

Kindly suggest an option to disable kibana UI login for user `elastic` without affecting the beats log ingest

Thanks,  
Ajesh

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-login-for-user-elastic/257365/2 "2020-12-02T23:10:40Z")

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That is not possible.  
The `elastic` user is the superuser, like `root` on a Unix machine, or an `Administrator` on windows.  
By design you cannot stop it from doing things.

You are really going to need to change your Beats configs to not use the `elastic` user because you are running each of them with a `superuser` than has full control over your cluster.

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**Author:** ![ajesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajesh)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-login-for-user-elastic/257365/3 "2020-12-03T10:52:47Z")

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Thank you Tim.

Can you please help me what will be the required permission for a custom user to be created for beats.

we are using , auditbeat, winlogbeat , & filebeat

Also can you please point me to the right article for key based authentication

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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:** [December 31, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-kibana-login-for-user-elastic/257365/4 "2020-12-31T10:52:59Z")

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