# How to access the Shield Protected Data by .Net?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-the-shield-protected-data-by-net/57660>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 10, 2016, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-the-shield-protected-data-by-net/57660 "2016-08-10T06:49:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sukesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sukesh/32/10890_2.png) [@sukesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sukesh)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-the-shield-protected-data-by-net/57660/1 "2016-08-10T06:49:27Z")

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Hi Team ,

I am using .Net to access the Elastic search Data . By lot of people suggestions i activated shield for the ES, now it is asking to authenticate the user . i just need connection-string to access the shield protected data by .net fluentd like what we will do in sql server connection string .Thank you

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-the-shield-protected-data-by-net/57660/2 "2016-08-11T05:59:19Z")

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Have you looked at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/current/connecting.html#\_configuration\_options](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/current/connecting.html#_configuration_options)?

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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 5, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-the-shield-protected-data-by-net/57660/3 "2017-07-05T22:28:36Z")

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