# How to use term Run\_As in kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-term-run-as-in-kibana/168708
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 17, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-term-run-as-in-kibana/168708 "2019-02-17T05:06:07Z")
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### Author: ![iamazy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamazy/32/36501_2.png) [@iamazy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iamazy)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-term-run-as-in-kibana/168708/1 "2019-02-17T05:06:07Z")

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Hello  
Current Logined user is elastic, I want to query dsl run as another user named iamazy, How to write the dsl，  
I try to run this dsl but got exception

```auto
POST test_index/_search
{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  },
  "run_as":"iamazy"
}

```

Thanks

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-term-run-as-in-kibana/168708/2 "2019-02-17T08:01:31Z")

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I am not sure you can do that in Kibana. If you look at[the documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/run-as-privilege.html) it shows that this does not go into the query DSL, but rather is sent as HTTP headers, which I do not think you can control/change in Kibana.

Why do you want to do this?

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### Author: ![iamazy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamazy/32/36501_2.png) [@iamazy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iamazy)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-term-run-as-in-kibana/168708/3 "2019-02-17T08:18:36Z")

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Hello ,  
I just try this dsl to verfied whether my role comes into effect，  
I had known this dsl grammar was wrong and my problem had solved。  
Thanks Christian

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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 17, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-term-run-as-in-kibana/168708/4 "2019-03-17T08:18:36Z")

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