# How to force login in kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-force-login-in-kibana/186728
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [June 20, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-force-login-in-kibana/186728 "2019-06-20T16:17:04Z")
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### Author: ![Mustapha\_MJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mustapha_mj/32/37140_2.png) [@Mustapha\_MJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mustapha_MJ)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-force-login-in-kibana/186728/1 "2019-06-20T16:17:04Z")

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Hello ELK Community

i install ELK stack on centos7 and i cant understand why kibana doesn't use login page  
i mean enyone can just type http://ELK\_IP:5601 and see my indexes, dashboard ......everything  
how i can force login page before access to kibana knowing that i'm using free basic license??

thank you very much

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### Author: ![philshikkim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philshikkim/32/48341_2.png) [@philshikkim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/philshikkim)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-force-login-in-kibana/186728/2 "2019-06-21T00:43:41Z")

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[https://youtu.be/nMh1HWWe6B4](https://youtu.be/nMh1HWWe6B4) It will help you what you want to do.

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### Author: ![Mustapha\_MJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mustapha_mj/32/37140_2.png) [@Mustapha\_MJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mustapha_MJ)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-force-login-in-kibana/186728/3 "2019-06-21T13:29:42Z")

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thanks for your replay  
according to that documentation i understood that security features are not free in old version of ELK  
but starting in versions 6.8.0 and 7.1.0 they become free, so now how to upgrade ELK ??  
Thanks

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### Author: ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-force-login-in-kibana/186728/4 "2019-06-24T04:46:04Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/setup-upgrade.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/setup-upgrade.html)

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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 22, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-force-login-in-kibana/186728/5 "2019-07-22T04:46:10Z")

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