# How to restrict user to access only Kibana dashboard
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 29, 2018, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945 "2018-06-29T11:15:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Sudharshan\_Katha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sudharshan_Katha)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945/1 "2018-06-29T11:15:03Z")
Created a user with "kibana\_dashboard\_only\_user" role even though the user has admin level access and used x-path basic license.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@lnxjenn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lnxjenn)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945/2 "2018-06-29T11:28:27Z")
What is your question?
If you want to restrict a user, I wouldn't give them admin level access. You should be able to edit that user and only apply the proper roles to that user, and remove admin access.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945/3 "2018-06-29T11:36:01Z")
Also note that security is not part of xpack basic.
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### Author:  [@Sudharshan\_Katha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sudharshan_Katha)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945/4 "2018-06-29T11:53:09Z")
> [@lnxjenn](#):
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> ou should be able to edit that use
Hi,
Thanks for the reply
I have created a user and that user should access only dashboards. For this, added 'kibana\_dashboard\_only\_user' role. When logged into Kibana with the created user, I could see that user able to see all tabs like Discovery, visualization, management etc.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Sudharshan\_Katha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sudharshan_Katha)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945/5 "2018-06-29T11:54:43Z")
Thanks David. Do we have any limitations with basic xpack?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945/6 "2018-06-29T13:00:37Z")
See the [full list](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions).
The default distribution of Elasticsearch includes all of X-Pack, but the default license is "basic" which does not include security.
You can activate a free trial of the commercial features via Kibana (Management -\> License) or via [the API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.3/license-management.html).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restrict-user-to-access-only-kibana-dashboard/137945/7 "2018-07-27T13:00:37Z")
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