# How to add role/permissions to an existing API key?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-role-permissions-to-an-existing-api-key/289946
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 23, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-role-permissions-to-an-existing-api-key/289946 "2021-11-23T12:10:49Z")
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### Author:  [@GavinBeattie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GavinBeattie)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-role-permissions-to-an-existing-api-key/289946/1 "2021-11-23T12:10:49Z")
I have created, from the Dev Console, and used an API key with "All" permissions for a particular index. I would now like to add "Read" permissions to a second index but use the existing API key.
Can these be done? I am keen to avoid an increasing list of separate keys.
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-role-permissions-to-an-existing-api-key/289946/2 "2021-12-02T21:32:26Z")
You would have to invalidate that key and create a new one with the combination of permissions that you need now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-role-permissions-to-an-existing-api-key/289946/3 "2021-12-30T21:33:20Z")
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