Disable login in Kibana 5.3

You can turn off security entirely, which will disable the login screen, by setting
xpack.security.enabled: false in elasticsearch.yml and kibana.yml, but that may not be what need.

Is your goal to have users be automatically logged in with a certain role (say, read only?)?

The latter can be done with a reverse proxy. There is some good info on this here:

As for the anonymous authentication, I'm not sure how kibana is supposed to act when that is set up in elasticsearch, but I'll try to find out more information.

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