# ELK X-pack integration with LDAP (anonymous)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-x-pack-integration-with-ldap-anonymous/149530>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 22, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-x-pack-integration-with-ldap-anonymous/149530 "2018-09-22T03:34:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![alnhk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@alnhk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alnhk)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-x-pack-integration-with-ldap-anonymous/149530/1 "2018-09-22T03:34:41Z")

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Hello.,

I am trying to have ELK x-pack with LDAP integration (anonymous), can I only provide only url, bind\_Dn with empty bind\_password ? And will this work ?

Thanks,  
HK

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**Author:** ![ikakavas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ikakavas/32/34430_2.png) [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-x-pack-integration-with-ldap-anonymous/149530/2 "2018-09-24T08:36:02Z")

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Hi,

You can use an anonymous bind while connecting to the LDAP server. To do so you need to **not** specify a `bind_dn` in the realm configuration, see the [documentation for `bind_dn`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/security-settings.html#ref-ldap-settings)

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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:** [October 22, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-x-pack-integration-with-ldap-anonymous/149530/3 "2018-10-22T08:37:30Z")

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