# Hide inaccessible menu points in Kibana left navigation bar

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-inaccessible-menu-points-in-kibana-left-navigation-bar/71124>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 10, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-inaccessible-menu-points-in-kibana-left-navigation-bar/71124 "2017-01-10T17:13:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![maenu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@maenu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maenu)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-inaccessible-menu-points-in-kibana-left-navigation-bar/71124/1 "2017-01-10T17:13:20Z")

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Hi

I created an x-pack user with no cluster permissions ('cluster privileges') but only permissions for a single index (and role kibana\_user).

When the user logs in in Kibana, he can see inaccessible menu points such as 'Management'. When he e.g. navigates to 'Management' and then 'Users' he gets the message 'You do not have permission to manage users/roles. Please contact your administrator.'

How can I just hide the Kibana menu points that are inaccessible for this user?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-inaccessible-menu-points-in-kibana-left-navigation-bar/71124/2 "2017-01-11T11:48:29Z")

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Hi @maenu,

hiding individual menu points based on permissions is unfortunately not supported at the moment.

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**Author:** ![maenu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@maenu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maenu)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-inaccessible-menu-points-in-kibana-left-navigation-bar/71124/3 "2017-01-12T09:56:21Z")

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Hi @weltenwort

Okay, thank you anyway. However, for me it would make sense to hide the menu points where the user has no permissions.

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-inaccessible-menu-points-in-kibana-left-navigation-bar/71124/4 "2017-01-12T10:48:35Z")

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I agree that this would be great! Please feel free to open an enhancement request in the [Kibana repo](https://github.com/elastic/kibana) to improve the chances of this being implemented. We are also happy to accept pull requests. 😉

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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:** [February 9, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-inaccessible-menu-points-in-kibana-left-navigation-bar/71124/5 "2017-02-09T10:49:14Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2017, 10:49am UTC

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