# How to smoothly replace deprecated reporting\_user by Kibana Feature privileges?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-smoothly-replace-deprecated-reporting-user-by-kibana-feature-privileges/373780
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security, elastic-stack-reporting
**Created:** [January 28, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-smoothly-replace-deprecated-reporting-user-by-kibana-feature-privileges/373780 "2025-01-28T16:07:17Z")
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### Author: ![bianca\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@bianca\_s](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bianca_s)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-smoothly-replace-deprecated-reporting-user-by-kibana-feature-privileges/373780/1 "2025-01-28T16:07:17Z")

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Hi all,

we want to get rid of the deprecated reporting\_user and wonder how to do that smoothly.

We have already found out that as a replacement one can use Kibana Feature Privileges which are available in the UI when setting _xpack.reporting.roles.enabled: false_ in kibana.yml.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/9/c90f736f90c0ab7bb0ca8f11ae43925df8290c00.png)

Our observation when setting _xpack.reporting.roles.enabled: false_ was, that ONLY Kibana feature privileges work. The reporting\_user role becomes "inactive", meaning it is still there but does not actually grant reporting privileges.

So basically, we see no way to migrate to the new kibana feature privileges without any disruption. We first have to set xpack.reporting.roles.enabled: true to be able to create the new role. But as soon as having done that, the old role won't work anymore and users won't be able to create reports until we will configure and assign the new role.

This is not a dealbreaker, but we would like to confirm that there really is no better / seamless way to migrate away from the reporting\_user?

Version: Elasticsearch 7.16  
License: Enterprise

Thank you very much!

Bianca

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### Author: ![bianca\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@bianca\_s](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bianca_s)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-smoothly-replace-deprecated-reporting-user-by-kibana-feature-privileges/373780/2 "2025-02-04T15:41:09Z")

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Anyone any idea? 🙂