# How to auto sign-in users for an embedded Kibana dashboard

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-auto-sign-in-users-for-an-embedded-kibana-dashboard/127730 "2018-04-12T05:01:31Z")\
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hi @kenneth,

this is not provided out of the box, but you could do this by setting up a reverse-proxy, which passes along the credentials.

There's an example with nginx here in this thread: [Auto authenticating to an embedded Kibana dashboard (on Elastic.co CLOUD)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-authenticating-to-an-embedded-kibana-dashboard-on-elastic-co-cloud/71248/13)

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