# Is there a way to prevent user from deleting saved Searches/Visualizations/Dashboards?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-user-from-deleting-saved-searches-visualizations-dashboards/86257>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 18, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-user-from-deleting-saved-searches-visualizations-dashboards/86257 "2017-05-18T12:40:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vitaly\_il](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vitaly_il/32/130964_2.png) [@Vitaly\_il](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vitaly_il)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-user-from-deleting-saved-searches-visualizations-dashboards/86257/1 "2017-05-18T12:40:09Z")

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I'm playing with users permissions on ELK5.4 with X-Pack.  
As far as I see, every user which can use Kibana ("kibana\_user" role) is able to delete any search/visualization/dashboard.  
I'd like to see two features, 1st is must IMHO and 2nd is pretty important too:

1. to have read-only Kibana users
2. to have Kibana users which are able to create Searches/Visualizations/Dashboards, and delete _their own_ objects.

Did I miss something and this is doable in ELK5.4 or I should open feature request?

UPDATE: the first goal (read-only Kibana user) seems be doable by cloning and tweaking "kibana\_user" role.

TIA,  
Vitaly

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-user-from-deleting-saved-searches-visualizations-dashboards/86257/2 "2017-05-19T22:00:19Z")

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As for #2, Kibana does not support object level security at the moment.

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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:** [June 16, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-user-from-deleting-saved-searches-visualizations-dashboards/86257/3 "2017-06-16T22:01:59Z")

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