# How to enable Kibana Console User authentication method

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-console-user-authentication-method/169608>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 22, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-console-user-authentication-method/169608 "2019-02-22T16:42:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![nagr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/aeb1de/32.png) [@nagr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nagr)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-console-user-authentication-method/169608/1 "2019-02-22T16:42:28Z")

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Hi Team,

I am new to this ELK platform, I have configured the ELK application on windows 2012 R32 server and it is working good,  
I just want to configure the Kibana console with login access method,  
Where do I enable this setting to get the login console for Kibana,

Thanks,  
Nagaraj,

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-console-user-authentication-method/169608/2 "2019-03-01T06:35:51Z")

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you can login with the username and pwd.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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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:** [March 29, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-console-user-authentication-method/169608/3 "2019-03-29T06:50:01Z")

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