# Disabling anonymous access

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-anonymous-access/50001>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [May 13, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-anonymous-access/50001 "2016-05-13T13:43:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hakanw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3e96dc/32.png) [@hakanw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hakanw)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-anonymous-access/50001/1 "2016-05-13T13:43:13Z")

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Hello,

I just set up a trial for the elastic found stack here. But I can't see any way to disable anonymous access (once you have the link to my cluster, you can query it).

Shield is enabled, and I haven't explicitly done anything to anonymous users there, but the docs say anon access should be off by default.

What is wrong?

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**Author:** ![hakanw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3e96dc/32.png) [@hakanw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hakanw)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-anonymous-access/50001/2 "2016-05-13T13:49:46Z")

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Oh okay, so it seems like I can't access any other pages than the first / info page using anonymous access. But can I not disable even that? Feels kind of sensitive to display exact version of Elasticsearch etc.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-anonymous-access/50001/3 "2017-07-06T13:44:40Z")

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