# How to make anonymous work for Kibana with shield?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-anonymous-work-for-kibana-with-shield/63897>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 25, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-anonymous-work-for-kibana-with-shield/63897 "2016-10-25T15:07:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Loren18m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@Loren18m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loren18m)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-anonymous-work-for-kibana-with-shield/63897/1 "2016-10-25T15:07:03Z")

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I set the anonymous by following the page [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/anonymous-access.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/anonymous-access.html), and it did work with the elasticsearch queries.  
However, when I access the Kibana, it still asks for a username and password, how to get through that?

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-anonymous-work-for-kibana-with-shield/63897/2 "2016-10-25T21:25:32Z")

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Sorry, anonymous access is not currently available in Kibana

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**Author:** ![Loren18m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@Loren18m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loren18m)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-anonymous-work-for-kibana-with-shield/63897/3 "2016-10-26T02:08:33Z")

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Thanks~!  
I am embedding the Kibana visualization into another Web application using iframe for a demo purpose, is there a way to pass in the user name and password (ugly) into the URL?

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-anonymous-work-for-kibana-with-shield/63897/4 "2016-10-27T16:03:32Z")

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I don't believe that's available yet, but we are working to add support for basic authentication

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**Author:** ![Loren18m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@Loren18m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loren18m)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-anonymous-work-for-kibana-with-shield/63897/5 "2016-10-28T02:58:40Z")

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Thanks~!

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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 6, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-anonymous-work-for-kibana-with-shield/63897/6 "2017-07-06T13:35:24Z")

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